Ladies and gentlemen, the Russian internet is filled with spectacular things! While browsing through some Russian blogs today - colloquially known in Russian as «жж» which is short for «живой журнал» [live journal] - I came across a link to a wonderful collection of pictures painted by the artist Поваляева [Povakyaeva]. Since these paintings were to good not to share, that’s exactly what I’ll do! And I give you a few of them here, with the ‘explanations’ to them both in Russian and with English translation. Anyone with a soft side for the intellectual will laugh out loud!

«Поэт Владимир Маяковский ищет свой паспорт в широких штанинах» [The poet Vladimir Mayakovsky looks for his passport in huge pants].

«Писатель Марсель Пруст разыскивает утраченное время…» [The writer Marcel Proust searches for lost time...]

«Поэт Александр Блок ночью идёт в дежурную аптеку [The poet Alexander Blok goes to an all-night open pharmacy].

«Писатель Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский работает над ключевой сценой будущего шедевра» [The writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky works on the key scene of his future masterpiece].

P.S. If you can’t see the pictures here you can see them on this link! And there’s a lot more pictures there, I only picked my own favorite ones to show here!�