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.