Venya Drkin

Venya D'rkin, real name – Alexander Mikhailovich Litvinov, was a Ukrainian Russian-language bard, poet, artist, painter, and writer of fairy tales. Over his lifetime, he had written over three hundred songs. As usual in the bard genre, the songs contain imaginative lyrics, but, less commonly, are also very melodic. During the late 1990s, he performed some of his songs accompanied by other musicians, notably the violinist Veronika Belyayeva.