“Tomorrow I had to give a bribe, five hundred thousand rubles. But I don’t have five hundred thousand, I only have a hundred. I went to my friend the artist. I wanted to borrow. He had just sold a painting called “Tree” and was on a drinking binge. So-so picture. True, it’s big, and the entire frame is wood. I even helped him complete this picture, drawing leaves. By the end of his work, he was already on a binge, and there were few leaves on the tree, so I helped him. I finished drawing the leaves..."