Venya D'rkin (Russian: Веня Д'ркин; 11 June 1970 in Dovzhanskyi, Luhansk Oblast, Soviet Union, now Dovzhanske, Ukraine – 21 August 1999 in Korolyov, Moscow Oblast, Russia), real name – Alexander Mikhailovich Litvinov (Russian: Александр Михайлович Литвинов), 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 musician