High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venya Drkin (Russian: Веня Д’ркин; 11 June 1970 Dolzhansky, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine - 21 August 1999, Korolyov, Moscow Oblast, Russia), real name - Alexander Litvinov, was a Russian bard, poet, artist and writer of fairy tales . He wrote over three hundred songs . As usual in the bard genre, the songs bear deep and imaginative lyrics, but, less commonly, are also very melodic. During the late 90's, he performed some of his songs with accompaniment of other musicians, notably violinist Veronica Belyayeva.