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"Kitchen" written by Osip Mandelstam and illustrated by Vladimir Izenberg in 1926. #soviet #sovietart
As well as Viy there is 'The Terrible Vengeance' ' Strashnaya mest' by Gogol - a story about evil spirits and the antichrist. It evokes folklore but seems to be his own paranoid invention. Cossacks do not fear sorcerors! Powerful illustration by Barry Bruner #faustianfriday
'The Three Bears' written by Leo Tolstoy, based on 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' and illustrated by Yuri Vasnetsov in 1977. #FolkloreThursday
'The Three Bears' written by Leo Tolstoy, based on 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' and illustrated by Yuri Vasnetsov in 1977. #FolkloreThursday
Jüri Arrak Estonian artist (who Riitta and Jude are thrilled to have exhibited with has drawn his 'melting heads' for records, books and media. Including Suur Tõll the giant of Saaremaa #WyrdWednesday
The red horseman brings the noon. Illustrations for "Vasilisa the Beautiful" by Mikhail Petrov from a book published in 1993.
Воскресенье! By Tolstoy. A novel for Sunday. Here's Vasily Meshkov's beautiful portrait of the writer in his study in 1910.
Exquisite illustrations by Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vasiliev for Charles Perrault's "Cinderella" published in 1971. #soviet #sovietart
Jiří Trnka made in 1959 his amazing animation 'Midsummer Night's Dream', but before that he illustrated Shakespeare's play in colour lithographs . #WyrdWednesday