Dmitri Vladimirovich Vrubel, best known for his popular and famous East Side Gallery painting My God Help Me To Survive This Deadly Love, was a Russian painter. Born 14 July 1960, as a Russian in Moscow, he painted a painting that saw its demise in 2009 by the authorities, the painting depicted the kissing of the communist leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker. The inspiration that resonated with the picture was a captured picture of a kiss that happened in 1979, when the GDR was having a 3... moreDmitri Vladimirovich Vrubel, best known for his popular and famous East Side Gallery painting My God Help Me To Survive This Deadly Love, was a Russian painter. Born 14 July 1960, as a Russian in Moscow, he painted a painting that saw its demise in 2009 by the authorities, the painting depicted the kissing of the communist leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker. The inspiration that resonated with the picture was a captured picture of a kiss that happened in 1979, when the GDR was having a 30-year celebration. Following the demise of his famous painting, Dmitri and his wife Viktoria Timofeev took it upon themselves to create a wild collection that caught the attention of the entire Russia which was a series of large format calendar paintings depicting the 12 moods of their President Vladimir Putin. The renowned painter succumbed to Covid 19 complications on the 14th of August 2022, leading to a heart failure as confirmed by his wife at the age of 62. His love for painting saw him creating different diversified paintings that captured people’s hearts and eye.
