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Please follow our journey here. We'd like to keep you updated about our travels, our new inventory, the finding of some of our treasures. Sometimes we dig a little deeper into information about an item that's in our inventory and sometimes we'll provide you with a short list of tips for wandering into the countries we've visited! Have fun reading our stories.

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On finding an icon in Kyiv

On finding an icon in Kyiv

Walking down Andriyivskyy Descent in Kyiv we saw a couple of tables with soviet relics. One of the salesman was very nice and chatty and when he found out about our...

On finding an icon in Kyiv

Walking down Andriyivskyy Descent in Kyiv we saw a couple of tables with soviet relics. One of the salesman was very nice and chatty and when he found out about our...

Discovering remarkable movie posters on a rainy day in Kyiv

Discovering remarkable movie posters on a rainy...

There simply weren’t enough words to describe the flea market in front of us. It was of substantial size, crowded, loud, chaotic, and above all, full of life. The exact...

Discovering remarkable movie posters on a rainy...

There simply weren’t enough words to describe the flea market in front of us. It was of substantial size, crowded, loud, chaotic, and above all, full of life. The exact...

Everyone gets a certificate!

Everyone gets a certificate!

A Gramota (Грамота) is a term that was borrowed from Byzantium (Ancient Greek), where the grammatist meant mess, regulation and other written documents. During the Soviet period, the word gained...

Everyone gets a certificate!

A Gramota (Грамота) is a term that was borrowed from Byzantium (Ancient Greek), where the grammatist meant mess, regulation and other written documents. During the Soviet period, the word gained...

Visiting Riga, Latvia

Visiting Riga, Latvia

We've seen loads of things, buildings, streets, abandoned areas, nice neighborhoods — and we struck gold! Not literally, no, we found worker safety posters. Original hand made 1960s artworks!. A little...

Visiting Riga, Latvia

We've seen loads of things, buildings, streets, abandoned areas, nice neighborhoods — and we struck gold! Not literally, no, we found worker safety posters. Original hand made 1960s artworks!. A little...

Visiting Riga – Searching for Soviet remnants, Part 3

Visiting Riga – Searching for Soviet remnants, ...

We can still write about many places and buildings to visit in Riga. Actually: we want to go back to visit many more interesting things in and around Riga. Below are...

Visiting Riga – Searching for Soviet remnants, ...

We can still write about many places and buildings to visit in Riga. Actually: we want to go back to visit many more interesting things in and around Riga. Below are...

Vladimir Lenin, by Pavel Semyonovich Zhukov (1870-1942), from Wikipedia

Why "Lenin"?

Lenin (Ленин, revolutionary pseudonym of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Влади́мир Ильи́ч Улья́нов) was a Russian revolutionary, first leader (prime minister) of the Soviet Union and namesake of the Marxist movement of...

Why "Lenin"?

Lenin (Ленин, revolutionary pseudonym of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, Влади́мир Ильи́ч Улья́нов) was a Russian revolutionary, first leader (prime minister) of the Soviet Union and namesake of the Marxist movement of...

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