Sadly, it came out just after a friend of mine was visiting Prague from Moscow, so it will still be a while before I can get my hands on it, but I’m tremendously excited by first sight of a new book, Сказки старой Руси. Начало, Tales of the Old Rus: the beginning, by Roman Papsuev (you can follow the project’s Facebook page here, and Papsuev, who goes as Amok Amokov on Facebook and Instagram). It’s published by Eksmo, ISBN 978-5-04-089352-2.
Papsuev, a self-taught Russian artist, has produced some amazing pictures of Russian traditional mythological and folklore tales and characters, imagined for the modern age with the style and sensibilities of game art. The result looks stunning, as the few screenshots here demonstrate. I’m very much looking forward to getting hold of this book, not least as an awesome collection of evocative pictures to inspire Mythic Russia games and gamers. (And the implication of the title is that more will follow…)
Updated, now that I have it. It doesn’t disappoint, in some ways being what Mythic Russia would be, married to the aesthetics of Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000. Here are a few more shots, inexpertly taken direct from the book:
Mythic Russia 