Onboard Diary

Day 6. Izmailovo

On the 6th day of our journey we visited Izmailovo´s market. There you can find any kind of antiques, trinkets, souvenirs and genuine or imitation-military products.

It was an aesthetic paradise for us and an unlimited batch of resources for our film and our newest obsession: Russia.

The shopping list, after a funny bargaining, was the following:

• Soviet leather cap.
• Soviet military cap (touristic)
• Russian poster magnets
• A book on Soviet posters to decorate the office in Madrid.
• Space period posters
• Several souvenirs.

And finally the three most interesting things:

We found some space books. All of them dated between 1960 and 1981 and all of them are a tribute to Gagarin. Space aviation books with plenty of technical instructions, written with a ball pen, about impossible calculation numeric tables, books about space techniques... An absolute wonder.

Much more important than that, before this, I found the teaspoon. The Teaspoon!. That one Stan holds up during almost the whole the film, one of the central themes in the script. That one I thought it would take me some months to find. It is absolutely perfect. And even better, I could buy a pack of 6! One of them is Miriam´s. The other 5 will be sold at auction once the film is finished.

To end a great day, we found a soviet pins collection shop. One of the sheets was fully dedicated to space pins. All of them were true wonders. Finally, after a long negotiation in the middle of the market, we finalized a deal with the seller. He will be our supplier. Soon he will send us a stock list of his with dates and value for every item. Therefore, you will shortly get complete access to all of these wonders on our website. We have brought a little sample to Spain.