The background is a Russian Empire newspaper page, filled with various advertisements; one of them is available on the internet, so I was able to dig it up, unlike the rest of the sheet. Yes, these are real and genuine. The rest is filled with postage stamps (the paper and ink ones in the upper part) from USSR; the central ones (red-blue-green) are real as well, so it's a weird mix of two eras.
VerniyDestroyer (outer edge)
USSR (inner part)autumnPOSTSoviet space station on VeneraMoscowUSSRCosmonautics Day (outer edge)
The first day (inner part)postage stampcopeck
копейка, or one hundredth of a ruble, the russian currency
CAPTOL
== THE BEST ==
TONIC FOR HAIR,
for cleaning, refreshing, and strengthening the head's skin, and especially against the head sebum, and related scabies, and the hair loss.
"Captol" is prepared by the order of dr. <...>
An ad from the very beginning of 20th century for Captol, the hair tonic. Yes, the advertisement was pretty wild in the days of yore.... PARIS COMPANYMoscow
postamt
A postamt is the head (or simply large) office
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