Russian Cards

Tarot cards and oracle decks created in Russia or with a Russian theme.

Fairy-tale Tarot The Fairy-tale Tarot for Children is a computer collage deck with loud, cheery, childish images based largely on Russian fairy tales. The 78 card deck is unpublished and still in progress.

Golden Tarot of the Tsar A luxurious looking tarot based on the iconic art of Russian Orthodox Christianity. The Golden Tarot of the Tsar is one of Lo Scarabeo's metallic decks - the saints and biblical scenes have textured gold backgrounds.

Holy Tarot of Tot The Holy Tarot of Tot is a 78-card Russian deck with an Egyptian theme. The art is of the stereotypical Ancient Egyptian style, here in saturated colour with black borders. There are no titles on the cards, just numerals, hieroglyphics, and suit symbols like those on playing cards.

Karmic Tarot Russian published, the Karmic Tarot deck has reasonably life-like looking, prettily illustrated majors and court cards, but plain pips for the minors.

Magic Tarot The Russian-published Magic Tarot has images composed with digital collage, combining classical art with esoteric and magical symbols. The minor arcana are also fully illustrated in a similar individual style.

Psychology-Magic Professional (PMP) Tarot The Psihology-Magic Professional (PMP) Tarot is an unpublished Russian deck with a total of 68 cards. There are three types of 22 major arcana cards (associated with magical influence, the psyche, and practical experience) and two cards representing male and female energies.

Rocambole Tarot The Rocambole Tarot is an 89-card deck of images of Toltec magic art. It was published in Russia in 2003 and the cards have titles in a geometric Russian font only.

Romanov's Dynasty Tarot The Romanov's Dynasty Tarot is an unpublished computer collage deck of 78 cards. The images are based largely on Russian historical art, surrounded by ornate borders, and inset with tiny copies of Marseilles cards.

Russian Gypsy Fortunetelling Cards These unusual Russian Gypsy Fortunetelling cards are like a puzzle. Each card has four quarter-images, which match up with the other cards to make a huge picture. The Russian lacquer box art used for the cards is gorgeous.

Russian Tarot The sumptuous Russian-style art of the majors and courts is detailed and lifelike, though the minors are unfortunately repetitive pip cards. All titles and text on the Russian Tarot appear in Russian, there is no English at all, but the tarot symbols are clear.

Russian Tarot of St Petersburg The cards of the Russian Tarot of St Petersburg have large black borders and the images are small and dark, as they are a series of miniature paintings of Russian people and fairy tales. Despite being a Russian deck, all text is in English.

Taro Artemis The Taro Artemis is a Russian-designed majors only collage Tarot, with images based on erotic characters.

Taro Slavynik Icons Taro Slavynik Icons is an in-progress collage-style deck designed by Aleksey Kluev and executed by Vladimir Strannikov. The images are based largely on icon characters from Russian art.

Tarot Astar The Tarot Astar is a new, Russian-published deck of erotic images. It has 78 cards - most of them quite explicit - with photo-collage art of naked women and muscled men.

Tarot of Fortune The Tarot of Fortune has 78 cards, which are titled in Russian and numbered from 0 to 77. The imagery is sensual and arty with an 80s feel, illustrated in pastel drawings on a white background.

Tarot-93 Tarot-93 is a light Russian 78-card deck in watercolours, published to accompany the book, "An ABC of the Tarot", by E. Kolesov. The major arcana cards are marked with Hebrew letters and titled in Russian, while minors are just numbered.

Vedicheskoe Tarot The Vedicheskoe Tarot is a Russian-published deck of 78 cards. Its illustrations are line-drawings filled in with bright, saturated colours. Titled in Russian.