A fun post for you today  —  a series of illus­tra­tions for a Russ­ian edi­tion of The Hob­bit, 1989. The artist Belom­lin­sky por­trayed the char­ac­ters in a funky man­ner. The book was pub­lished at 300,000 copies and it was a suc­cess  —   I had itas a kid and it had me scared. I could never get over the […]

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1967. Despite of look­ing like a Min­istry of Truth pro­pa­ganda depart­ment, actu­ally this is a typ­i­cal book­shop of those days. Mod­ern book­shops look sim­i­lar to oth­ers in the world, full of dif­fer­ent books of all sorts and styles, but back in the Soviet times only por­traits of Lenin and the mem­bers of the gov­ern­ment were […]

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