Video: Svarog, Makosh and other characters of Slavic mythology brought to life on digital illustrations by an artist from the Russian hinterland
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There were also fables, fairy tales and myths, gods and valkyries, forest spirits and many other characters, which everyone had forgotten a long time ago, come to life in their works, inviting the viewer on a fascinating journey, woven from the distant past … There, where the atmosphere reigning around gives a feeling of light excitement and magic, which is sometimes so lacking in everyday life.
Continuing the theme of fairy tales and not only, the colorful works of Roman Papsuev, in which other characters of Russian fairy tales appear before the viewer in a different light, not the way they are used to seeing them.
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