Anne Bobroff-Hajal: Russian History
Bless my dear Rachel’s late night internet searches, which led me to Anne Bobroff-Hajal’s incredible Russian History illustrations.
Rachel came across THIS incredible illustration, with no explanation whatsoever. It turned out to be a depiction of Ivan he Terrible blessing a mustachioed baby Joseph Stalin (but it’s more entertaining with no idea that it’s supposed to be political satire). I rather enjoyed her recounting the Google image searches that finally led to the image source…including, but not limited to “flying broomstick mustache baby.”
The artist bio describes Bobroff-Hajal’s work as detailed and whimsical visual stories about powerful human motivations: love, greed, grief, competition, fury.
This art has so much character, I feel it could make even those who find history dreadfully boring pay attention
SheWalksSoftly 
March 10, 2016 at 8:28 pm
HAHAHAAAAAAA!! You made me look so much more respectable – thank you!! This is so funny. I will repost to my page next week! This is definitely one of my better late night finds. (Sorry for the delay. Appointments today. Blah.)
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March 11, 2016 at 12:11 am
Boa noite!
Queria pedir, gentilmente que por favor não me mandem mais nada referente a este site, já cancelei por varias vezes e não sei porque continua chegando mensagens para mim no meu e-mail
Fico no aguardo!
2016-03-10 11:04 GMT-04:00 SheWalksSoftly :
> shewalkssoftly posted: “Bless my dear Rachel’s late night internet > searches, which led me to Anne Bobroff-Hajal’s incredible Russian History > illustrations. Rachel came across THIS incredible illustration, with no > explanation whatsoever. It turned out to be a depiction of Iv” >
March 28, 2016 at 2:51 pm
Hi, She Walks Softly, I’m so glad you and Rachel found my art, and that you enjoy it, especially “This art has so much character, I feel it could make even those who find history dreadfully boring pay attention!”
March 28, 2016 at 10:34 pm
I’m so glad you found this post! Keep up the great work!