Just something I found

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Just something I stumbled on in google and thought to share...
Makes me wish I could read russian, the pictures in this book are beautiful even though I can´t read the story. <3
The artist is apparently named Gennady Spirin, and the book is "TWO DEER WERE ENCOUNTERED".
Link found here.

Wow, these are.. so lovely

Wow, these are.. so lovely Q3Q

I wonder how old the drawings are.
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I wish I could have read that

I wish I could have read that story too.
The images are beautiful! ♥

These are gorgeous.

These are gorgeous.
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Luckily you´re able to follow

Luckily you´re able to follow the story pretty well by just watching the pictures... <3
Fishbiscuit, it was published in 1980, according to info from the last link.
They look somehow a lot older to me, must be because of the style.

Yeah, the style and colors

Yeah, the style and colors look... pre-raphaelite, almost.

Still. It's so lovely! Auuugh I want that book.
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Somehow reminds me a bit of

Somehow reminds me a bit of the unicorn-tapestries too, maybe because of the use of perspective and backrounds.
Me too.... just had to save the pictures for now, though. I feel quite inspired by the style. <3
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Those illustrations are

Those illustrations are amazing... though, the stag beetle is kind of scary haha. Nice find!
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Hmmm, that is

Hmmm, that is interesting.
This is really old book and the language is pretty weird, even for me.
I see there is a lot of pages is missing and they all mixed up so I hardly can find the narration's thread.

Briefly, this story is about Stag-beetle (dunno if i translated it right), that think he is a real deer, but under some spell. He meet the Noble stag and ask him for help, to become Big and Nobel as well.
And they start a long journey, with a lot of adventures (you can see it in pictures).


> FishBiscuit, Spyrre
I think they look older cause of the book itself - don't forget, it's old and I don't think it was ceep in a safe for all this time.
Also, it was scanned, and not very good, so the quality could be reduced even more. =/
-formerly Silensia-
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Thank you for the gist of the

Thank you for the gist of the story, Silensia (:
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Dag, yeah he kind of is... If

Dag, yeah he kind of is... If that kind of thing with that face would crawl up to me, I´d freak out even though I mostly have no problem with bugs. ^^;

Silensia, Wow, thanks for the translation of the plot! I thought that I had some kind of idea of the story, but seems like I imagined a completely different one. Oh well. ^^;
Yeah, you´re right about the quality too... I´d hope to see the images in better quality, but couldn´t find atleast with google. Anyway, they´re beautiful even like this, the old feeling in them kind of makes them appeal instead of taking it away in my opinion.