He was best known for his East Side Gallery-painting My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, depicting the kissing communist leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker.

He started painting at 15 and studied at the graphic art department of the Moscow State V.I.

[1] Vrubel's most famous work is the graffiti piece, painted on the Berlin Wall entitled My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love which depicts the kissing communist leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker.

[3] In 2009, the painting was removed by the authorities as part of a cleaning effort in order to have it repainted by Vrubel.

[6] Each page of the calendar portrayed a different image of Putin and was an unexpected hit with the Moscow population.