Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

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Illustrator Sveta Dorosheva collects vintage postcards. Among the exhibits of her collection there are both ordinary and rare, and quite strange and ambiguous. A selection of the latest Sveta shared with the public. Next — her story.

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

I collect old postcards. There are a lot of beautiful things there — luxurious retrodives, amazing paintings, hats, dresses and shameless outfits… But the most amazing thing is to consider how much the plots have changed. Most of the plots are impossible to imagine on modern postcards, and some are now taboo altogether. For example, a smoking child: it was touching — it became outrageous.

Or here:

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

"Morphinists". My favorite postcard. The plot is absolutely impossible these days, but what wonderful devils they are!

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

Or imagine — you get a postcard from a dear friend with the disturbing plot "Anatomy of the heart": a thoughtful anatomist stands over a naked female body and holds her heart in his hand. Admiring in pince-nez.

On the back, by the way, is a love letter.

And so, I imagine, the cheeky girl gets a postcard and thinks:

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

And it turns out that they have, as it were, two layers of correspondence: one in words, and the second, latent, in plots. This is not a Japanese smiley face at the end of a sentence…

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

A couple more anatomists: a popular story in postcards…

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

Less refined lovers used more obvious plots:

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

 

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

 

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

She is waiting for his caresses. Everything is clear. No discrepancies.

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

And here are the engaged ones. These here are ozhenili.

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

And these are crazy, it's obvious.

I'll show you some more strange dramatic plots:

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

"The Drama of life".

Everything is clear here. On the one hand — a wife, children, and on the other — a beckoning siren. Drama as it is. On the back, someone wrote down a piece from Gumilev:

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

 

In my opinion, you can't illustrate it better. I always look at this postcard and think: I wonder if it belonged to a man or a woman? In other words, who sent it to whom: the siren to her married lover or he to her: they say, I love you and your diamond suns, but the children are sitting under the benches, 15 years of living together, we have sprouted into each other. I'm sorry, siren, I can't sail away with you to inaccessible constellations... and today I scanned — I look: there is no stamp. So — a woman after all. I wrote to him and didn't send it. Because in unhappy love, women become suspicious, vulnerable and modest. They will write about themselves in the constellations and immediately realize: what if not? What if I'm not a beckoning star, but a Tweety from a soap factory? I won't send…

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

Here are more plots that I can't imagine in a modern postcard.

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

 

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

Little Red Riding Hood here in this performance.

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

"The visionary Widow."

I remember a friend and I argued whether the artist had deliberately depicted a shadow on the widow's skirt in the form of an erect shameful oud, or so ... it happened by accident.

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

And finally, incredibly strange zombies.

It's scary to guess what it's about… There was such a movie in the 60s - Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed—up Zombies ("Incredibly strange creatures who stopped living and turned into confused zombies"). This postcard could serve as a poster for him.

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

I like it when the card is signed. Then the plot also acquires a context, sometimes funny, sometimes banal. Let's say that a person tried, wrote an essay for the picture "Coquetry".

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

 

(Punctuation and spelling are preserved, sorry, I can't reproduce.)

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

But Marusya was waiting at the station for her train and give, she thinks, a couple of lines to her friend cherkan? I bought the first postcard I came across, and writes:

And Lelya got it, read twice about cherries, turned it over…

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

Lelia looked at the candy ladies, who probably never rolled up a single jar of jam in her life... she prevented the boiling in a bucket on the stove, singed a blue plucked chicken over the fire, wiped her red hands on her apron, looked at the young ladies again, turned them over and read about cherries... And burst into tears for something about the incomprehensible, about babsky…

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

But the person was looking for a plot, trying to make the text and the picture form a complete harmony.

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

Look at what's on the back!!!

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

Well, the most enigmatic plot + signature in my collection.

Author's collection of the strangest postcards from the past

Turnover: "Now I will."

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