As in the USSR Interior determined intellectuals

Houses in the Soviet Union were based on a single standard, and the furniture was identical. When Soviet citizens began to receive their own apartments, all at least a little, but would be allocated a distinctive interior. To show their individual taste in the home environment is often managed intellectuals. They were present in the atmosphere of special things that are not always immediately evident, but still gave a special charm to the surrounding atmosphere.

1. Riga ceramics

Souvenirs from a holiday becomes an integral part of the interior of the Soviet intelligentsia. / Photo: pbs.twimg.com

Most of the inhabitants of the Soviet Union for recreation and health promotion were sent to sanatoriums in the Black Sea. However, intellectuals prefer to go to a more modern and popular resorts - in Riga and Jurmala. Creative people, who are constantly in search of inspiration, as well as those who could afford to leave for a long time, sometimes renting a place to live in these places for the entire holiday season. In the USSR, a very prized crystal, but from Jurmala and Riga it was made to bring the ceramic.

A typical furniture with glass shelves in Soviet times. / Photo: img.anews.com

Beautiful unusual dishes complement the interior, and particularly appreciated in the family circle. Among common items to the public, and be placed on a shelf were tea sets, tureens and pitchers, dishes, as well as sets of figurines.

2. Alternative wipes

Napkins made in the Soviet Union was one of the main means of interior decoration. / Photo: st.violity.com

In a typical home, many Soviet horizontal surfaces were decorated with lace napkins. Openwork patterns could be seen under the vases with flowers on the kitchen table, TV, dresser, desk, and even on the windowsill. Their carefully vyvyazyvayut family needlewoman, such as a grandmother or mother, or bought in stores. However, members of the intellectual class preferred to stand, decorating your interior straw mats, in the manner of those that are popular today.

3. Bookshelves

intellectual Apartment easily recognizable by the large number of books. / Photo: i.pinimg.com

What kind of intellectuals without food for the mind? Books were many, and they could buy at an affordable price, so often present in the interior entire bookcases in which the orderly rows were multicolored small volumes. Books were the property of the whole family, everyone was trying to stand their special taste: subscribe to the entire series, chose the rare specimens, carefully passed the trash.

A large number of books can be seen even in Soviet films. / Photo: image3.thematicnews.com

Especially valuable are the collected works of the classics of foreign and domestic literature, fantastic stories and works of foreign authors. Books handed down, so intelligent families, they sometimes took half a.

4. The portraits of great men

Writers and poets have been held in high esteem in the USSR. / Photo: img.tourister.ru

Most of the apartments with the "intelligent" interior adorned with portraits of famous figures of the pen. All records of popularity hit Yesenin. However, those who wish to stand out from the rest, hung in his apartment image Hemingway. Often it was a portrait of where the writer is depicted in a sweater with a high collar and a tube.

5. High-quality furniture

Sometimes things were not many, but they were allocated with the "old-fashioned" design. / Photo: yerbamateassociation.org

Expensive things handed down, as well as books. Therefore, in intelligent homes was taken to throw out an aging furniture and replace it with a new one, which is a blueprint, filled all recently inhabited apartment. The interior of such people is decorated with old chairs and tables, tables, inherited from her grandmother, and a bed with a beautiful headboard.

6. Gramophone records and

Entries bards and rare vinyl records were adorn intelligent person home. / Photo: upload.wikimedia.org

Special aesthetic pleasure was considered old to listen to artists, songs and music that were recorded on vinyl. Bard songs recorded on a reel tape recorder and passed from one connoisseur to another. Special privilege it was thought if you managed to get a record of foreign artists, which cost a lot of money, often three times more expensive than domestic.

The record of Soviet times with classical music. / Photo: pics.meshok.net

These treasures are very valued, listened in a narrow range and is not always bragged to acquaintances. In the later years of the Soviet Union were valued pieces of rock musicians, so immense popularity acquired recordings of the band "Time Machine" and "Aquarium".