Pekelna Horugva” (Пекельна хоругва in Ukranian which means Hell banner or flag of Hell) is the second deck designed by Ukrainian illustrator Vladislav Erko, manufactured by Nage Cards, Saint-Petersburg, 2012. Vladislav Erko is noted for his beautiful artwork in children’s fairy tale books, as well as his earlier deck for “Taras Bulba” the Moscow restaurant which serves traditional national cuisine. In this second deck, which also contains some culinary references, the imagery has turned rather grim and appears to be based on the mystical works of Nikolai Gogol expressing ethnic and nationalist themes, including death.

This entry is for the reprint of the original deck that have a modified tuck, standard bridge size with a new simpler back (from the artist’s Alice in Wonderland work for some strange reason) and uses basic plastic coated paper stock compared to the original which were a larger size (2.767 X 4.130) and features the original card back and thumb slot tuck.  The manufacturer was originally Nage Cards (http://www.nage-cards.ru/), but it can not be confirmed who printed this reprint.  Likewise, the reprint states the year 2012, but it is assumed the actual print date was later, perhaps as late as 2015.

http://www.wopc.co.uk/russia/pekelna-horugva.html

http://a.trionfi.eu/WWPCM/decks15/d13217/d13217.htm