Greetings, my Patreon comrades!

I have to admit, the illness that chased me since winter finally caught up on me, and bound me to bed.

There are two consequences, good and bad.

The bad one. I can work for barely 3-4 hours a day. So mostly working on sketches, drafts and sorting old stuff.

The good one. Paradoxically, I started to draw even more than before. I distracts me from my illness, and that's one of the few things I still can do. Got time to work on smaller projects I previously had postponed because of bigger projects and main job.

And now I'd like to tell you about one such, hopefully fun, project.

You see, Patreon is a great thing! It not just brought me a few extra roubles (which now allow me to afford to stay ill in bed, and thanks for this, Patreon comrades!). It also let me meet lots of interesting people from all over the world.

And although we communicate, at times, in pretty broken English foreign to both of us, and mostly about erotic art, even that way I learned a lot about other countries and cultures.

It's surprising how little we know about each other in the age of the Internet!

I often came across many people having very little idea about Russia and Russians. Sometimes we are believed to be some kind of a fantasy race, like orcs. At times it's funny and even flattering. But at time I just think - WHAT THE FUCK!

And here's what I'm coming to.

If you have questions about my country and my people, I will answer right away... say, to 20 of them. Any question, no matter from who (even non-patrons), as long as it's about Mother Russia! One thing, I'll pick the questions myself. Because they may be silly, boring, repeating or ones KGB doesn't allow me to answer.

And I'll not just honestly answer, I'll draw a pic for my answer (am I an artist or not?).

If you wanted to learn something about our 1/6 of the Earth'd dry land straight from the source, here's your chance. Because I am a real Russian (and even a communist), and I even have a beard, a fur hat with a star, and the top mark at school for history.

And if you wanted to know if you need to defeat a Russian girl in a "sambo" fight to bed her, how soon are we going to conquer the world, is really a word from any language ending with "-ski" Russian, and what do we drink save for vodka, ask, and I will answer. I hope this will let you learn something new, and me have time fly by as I stay in bed.

p.s. I'd also love to hear stories from you on you peoples, countries and stereotypes that are spread around the world concerning them. Maybe I'll draw something based on that -__^