Egorov

Alexander Egorov's tarot, printed by Vienna's venerable Piatnik house, arrives with the archive review's frank warning: the little white book is nearly useless, and experienced collectors will not be surprised. That is actually orientation, not condemnation. Egorov's deck belongs to the post-Soviet moment when Russian artists took up tarot's traditional imagery with their own historical and occult associations, and like much of that wave it circulates as an artist's statement wearing a mass-produced format, documentation optional. Piatnik's craft standard, the same that distinguishes this catalog's Deva Tarot, gives the cards their physical quality, and the traditional imagery keeps them readable to anyone with RWS-family fluency, guidebook or no. The deck rewards readers comfortable trusting their own interpretive legs. It suits collectors of Russian and Eastern European tarot, Piatnik completists, and readers who treat an unhelpful LWB as independence rather than abandonment. Those who want their decks thoroughly documented should choose one whose book was the point.