Russian editions illustrated by Denis Gordeev

I recently acquired the russian hobbit illustrated by Denis Gordeev (Izdatel’stvo AST, 2022. ISBN: 978-5-17-116759-2) to keep my silmarillion and the lord of the rings company. While these books are hardbacks without Dustjackets they are still quite pretty books and Gordeevs illustrations really make them worthwhile. There are 20-25 illustrations per book. Some are colour illustrations and some are black and white renderings of his drawings. The endpapers are also quite well-made from Gordeevs drawings.

The hobbit


back cover


Bilbo and Gollum: black and white drawing


The company before Thranduil


The Silmarillion (unlike the other books it only contains black a white illustrations)



Feanor and Fingolfin



Ainulindale



The Lord of the Rings



Gandalf at Bag End



The Silent watchers



Theoden, Eowyn and Gandalf



Example of endpapers



My Gordeev set, the children of Hurin is still missing