Old Cyrillic alphabet illustrated by Elisabeth Bohm (Елизавета Меркурьевна Бём; 1843-1914), a Russian painter and the most successful prominent author of postcards in 19th century Russia.
If you don't understand the text on the pictures, that's ok -- it's the old alphabet. Today russian ABC looks a little different. Here's the link where you can see it and study if you want http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Russian/Alphabet Go for it... you know you want to :)
