Dmitri Vrubel
Dmitri Vladimirovich Vrubel (Russian: Дмитрий Владимирович Врубель; born 14 July 1960 in Moscow) is a Russian painter, best known for his East Side Gallery-painting My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, depicting the kissing communist leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker.[1] The painting was inspired by the kiss they had in 1979, during the celebration of the 30 years of the GDR.[2] In 2009 the painting was destroyed by the authorities, in order to have it repainted by Vrubel.[3][4]
In 2001, he and his wife, Viktoria Timofeyeva, created a limited edition large format calendar containing portraits of Russian President, Vladimir Putin called "The 12 moods of Putin".[5] Each page of the calendar portrayed a different image of Putin and was an unexpected hit with the Moscow population.[5][6]
His surname is a Russification of the common Polish surname Wróbel.
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