Rinat Voligamsi

His other collections include Snow (2011–13), Dvoegorsk (2018), focusing on a fictional town named Dvoegorsk, and The Conditions of Winter, focusing on soldiers surviving through the harsh Russian winter.

Voligamsi gained widespread recognition for his 2006 Unofficial Album collection, a fictional retelling of the life of Vladimir Lenin through his art. In the collection, Lenin has a twin brother named Sergei and he survives through 1924, deciding to throw away his life in politics and choosing to live life as a Muslim.

Rinat Voligamsi (born 1968, Russian: Ринат Волигамси), real name Rinat Fazletdinovich Ismagilov (Russian: Ринат Фазлетдинович Исмагилов), is a Russian surrealist painter. His works largely deal with his childhood in the Soviet Union as well as the situation of modern Russia. He is based in Ufa.

Voligamsi was born in 1968 in the small town of Yermolaevo in what was then the Bashkir ASSR. He has had an interest in painting since a young age. He entered into Ufa State Petroleum Technological University in 1984, where he received an education in architecture, graduating in 1989. He was conscripted into the Red Army in 1988, but was released within a year to return to his studies. In 1994, he was given the State Prize of the Russian Federation in recognition of his work. Since 2000, Voligamsi has been a member of the Russian Union of Artists. In 2014, he won the Repin Prize of the Russian Federation and was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize.