Tolbukhin. Bulgaria. 1960

Tolbukhin / Dobrich. Bulgaria.
Tolbuhin / Dobrich. Bulgaaria.
Толбухин / Добрич. Болгария.

Postcard, 1960.
My collection.

* Dobrich is situated almost in the center of the Dobrudzha plateau, 50km to the north of Varna. The town bore the name of the Marshal of the Soviet Union Fyodor Tolbukhin for several decades during the Communist rule. On 19 September 1990, a presidential decree restored the city's old name of Dobrich.

"Portrait of the Actress Pelageya Strepetova"

"Portrait of the Actress Pelageya Strepetova" (1881) / Ilya Repin / The State Tretyakov Gallery.  Moscow. Russia.

"Näitlejanna Pelageja Strepetova portree" / Ilja Repin / Tretjakovi Galerii. Moskva.

"Портрет актрисы П. А. Стрепетовой" (1882) / Илья Репин /  Государственная Третьяковская галерея.

Postcard, 1974
My collection.

* Pelageya Strepetova (1850 - 1903) was a Russian tragical actress. She specialized in the roles of the poor and humiliated, exhausted by life women.

* Ilya Repin in this blog.

"The Good Soldier Švejk" - 4.

"The Good Soldier Švejk".
"Vahva sõdur Švejk".
"Бравый солдат Швейк".

Postcards (Czech), 1986.
My collection.

* "The Good Soldier Švejk" is the abbreviated title of a unfinished satirical novel by Jaroslav Hašek (1883-1923). The original Czech title of the work is "Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války" - "The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War" (1923). My postcards are from Czechoslovakian puppetoon version "Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka" (1986).