VLADRUSHKA by John Linton Roberson

Her Commentary Track (new print series!)

#1: Knees (featuring Jarman)
2025 | Digital

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First of an experimental series of Vladrushka prints. In this one, a short but sweet prelude with Vladrushka about to begin performing for her worldwide audience with her frequent co-star Jarman, only one part of whom is showing, which she rhapsodizes about in the commentary track filling all the space around them. (c)2025 John Linton Roberson

First of an experimental series of Vladrushka prints. In this one, a short but sweet prelude with Vladrushka about to begin performing for her worldwide audience with her frequent co-star Jarman, only one part of whom is showing, which she rhapsodizes about in the commentary track filling all the space around them. (c)2025 John Linton Roberson

Start (featuring Berlin & London)
2025
Digital

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Start (featuring Berlin & London) - 2025(c)2025 John Linton Roberson

All in a Mess (featuring Berlin & London)
2025
Digital

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All in a Mess (featuring Berlin & London, with Jarman and London's submissive guy known only as L'Objet) (c)2025 John Linton Roberson

Happy To See Me (featuring Berlin & London)
2025
Ink and Gouache on Illustration board/Digital color

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Vladrushka HAPPY TO SEE ME (c)2025 John Linton Roberson

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Vladrushka HAPPY TO SEE ME (c)2025 John Linton Roberson

Take 68 (featuring Berlin & London)
2024
Digital

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Vladrushka TAKE 68 (c)2024 John Linton Roberson

Drop (featuring Berlin)
2024
Digital

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Drop (featuring Berlin)2024-close-up study of the lovely and eager, but always silent, Berlin’s devotion: her long black hair clings damply to her sweat-slick face as she leans in, tongue extended to savor her unseen lover's cock, the only part of him shown. A shining bead of semen has just begun to form at the tip, suspended like the promise of harvest. Her eyes glimmer with exertion and reverence, as though in this act she carries the full banner of pleasure forward. Every drop is elevated, every lick monumental — a portrait of labor, lust, and triumphant abundance. (c)2023 John Linton Roberson

Acid Sauna
2023
Digital

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Vladrushka ACID SAUNA (c)2023 John Linton Roberson

Cozy
2023
Gouache, charcoal and India ink on canvas

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Vladrushka COZY (c)2023 John Linton Roberson

Fuck Putin/Slava Ukraini
2023
Digital Art

Vladrushka Fuck Putin/Slava Ukraini(c)2023 John Linton Roberson

Tsarina
2022
Digital Art

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Vladrushka Tsarina (c)2022 John Linton Roberson

Star Four - NEW!
2022
Ink Drawing on Crescent Board/Digital Art

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Star Four - (with Berlin, Jarman and London) 2022 In a chamber lit by violet neon lightning like the crackle of progress itself, Vladrushka reclines with the majesty of a conquering general. One hand holds the chalice of reward, the other parts her body in fearless invitation. Jarman kneels between her thighs and pleasures her like the tireless worker he is, his broad back gleaming with devotion to the task. Below him, London and Berlin fuse in a tangle of mouths and limbs, Berlin sucking Jarman(who has come several times already) as his considerable balls rest on her soft throat, while London in turn licks her. All comrades united in shared desire. Above them all, Vladrushka laughs, breasts lifted, gaze aflame—the radiant star, the vanguard of pleasure, the emblem of heroic achievement in flesh.(c)2022 John Linton Roberson

Vladrushka 1985
2020
Digital Art

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Vladrushka 1985 (c)2020 John Linton Roberson

Family Snapshot
2020
Digital Art (over scanned pencil)

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Vladrushka and Berlin: Mother's Pride (c)2020 John Linton Roberson

Mother's Pride
2020
Digital Art (PENCIL ORIGINAL SOLD)

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Mooning A Lichtenstein
2020
Digital Art

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Vladrushka: A Summer Night at the World Eaters Club (c)2019 John Linton Roberson

A Summer Night at the World Eaters Club
(After Pasolini)
2020
Digital Art

COLOR

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World Eaters Club 2020-Behold the banquet of the parasites! In their fortress of gold and stained glass, the jackals of capital strip the people’s children, chaining them, blindfolding them, devouring them as meat. They wear the masks of scavenger beasts because that is all they are—hyenas gnawing at the bones of the world. In the center stands Vladrushka, not as victim but as spy among the leeches, bound in ribbons only to conceal her dagger, trading smiles as she measures their weaknesses. Around her, Berlin itself is auctioned like cattle, trussed and handed to the slaughter, a prize for the highest bidder. This is the orgy of the exploiters: blood and lust as contract, humiliation as currency. Yet their feast cannot last—for the workers see, the workers know, and one day the workers will rise and tear down the World Eaters’ club brick by brick, until no trace of their cruelty remains. (c) 2019 JLRoberson

BLACK AND WHITE

Pooling Resources (2018)
Digital Art

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Pooling Resources (2018)Beneath the blinding halo of a capitalist sun, Vladrushka floats like an empress on the water—naked, calm, and untouchable. Her body is leisure itself, a resource monopolized, commanding tribute from the broken backs beneath her. One man lies chained in an inflatable throne painted in false patriot colors, his mouth smothered, his strength bound into service; another kneels at her sex, laboring with the obedience of a servant on the factory floor. Around them, in the background, couples grind away under the stained-glass mirage of prosperity, sweating out their desires as if they were productivity quotas. The image is clear: under capitalism, pleasure flows upward, siphoned from the toil of the many into the ecstasy of the few. Vladrushka, ever the infiltrator, wears the leisure of empire like a crown even as she reveals its obscenity—pooling resources until the pool runs dry. (c)2018 JLRoberson

The Box (2018)
India ink and wash on illustration board

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Fifteen (Anniversary of Vladrushka drawing, 2018)
India ink on illustration board
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Taste
(2012)

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Forward! FORWARD!
Movie Poster, 1980
(2012)

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Notes on "Forward! FORWARD!"
1980
Directed by Yuri Dmitri Myshkin
Starring Vladrushka Vostok

One of Myshkin's works of "pornoganda" for which he was the most proud, and also, as so often in cinema, one of his greatest heartbreaks.

This three-hour epic starred Vladrushka in her usual Myshkin role of a plucky young beautiful Soviet girl who wants to give her all for the glorious Soviet Union. This time around, her way of doing it is to seduce the entire American Olympic team systematically, making them all late or woozy for their events, assuring Soviet gold medals in every event.

The climax of the film is Vladrushka being declared a Hero of the Soviet People by Brezhnev himself, who was barely aware of what he was being filmed for but went along so no one would suspect.

Truly, Myshkin put his heart and soul into this intensely patriotic film, but unfortunately, fate killed his dreams, or at least this one: it had been intended to be released to coincide with the 1980 Moscow Olympics, but the United States boycotted that year because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Now a source of embarrassment, the film and all publicity materials were permanently shelved and locked in an iron box in the sub-basement of the Soviet Archives, where it was later found in 1996.

Myshkin and Vladrushka spent 6 months in a work camp for not predicting the US would boycott. "I was foolish," Myshkin later said in his signed confession that secured his release.

Invest in Russia 1996
(2012)

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In 1996, Vladrushka had one more patriotic duty to perform for the newly capitalist Motherland. So many had lost so much under Boris Yeltsin's drunken, kleptocratic regime, and she made it a point to aid him in this. Accordingly, she and her longtime director Yuri Myshkin devised a plan sure to attract American and European investment in the new Russia.

In a nutshell, what was promised on the poster was indeed the plan: Vladrushka offered to have incredibly detailed sex with the CEOs of a number of western companies in exchange for investment. Obviously Yuri planned to film this, but KGB official Vladimir Putin was enraged when Yuri would not share this with him, planning only to use it for a new film and not for blackmail.

It was at this point Vladrushka and Myshkin were thrown out of Russia forever, beginning her Hollywood years which continue to this day.

Springtime, Downtown Saturday Night with London & Berlin
(2012)

Vladrushka w/ Berlin & London: "Springtime, Downtown Saturday Night" (1)

Vladrushka w/ Berlin & London: "Springtime, Downtown Saturday Night" (1)

Fixations with London & Berlin
(2011)

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VLADRUSHKA-London & Berlin Pinup(sketch): Fixations 1

Be Sure to Get My Good Side with London
(2011)

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To Revolt Is Glamorous!
(2010)
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