Jesse Yevdaev
Bogatyr
Illustration
2025
The Bogatyr were considered the supermen of Slavic myth. However, when looking at modern soldiers fighting in the Russia-Ukraine war, there is much lost from the nobility of past warriors. From mass destruction to soldiers falling daily, the grandness of war has casually become an ill- fated battlefield, now a faded image of what was once virtuous.
Work by
Jesse Yevdaev
Illustration
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