Discover the unusual literary portraits on the streets of Russia

From Moscow to Perm by way of Nizhny Novgorod, discover these eye-catching portraits of literary greats, which may just make you look twice at the buildings around you.

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Alexander Zhunev’s sticky tape Gorky, located in the writer’s native town of Nizhny Novgorod.

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Alexander Zhunev’s black and white painting of the poet Sergei Yesenin, in Perm.

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Alexandre Farto’s hollowed out work of Hermann Hesse on Savvinskaya Embankment in Moscow, created with just a drill and a hammer.

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Graffiti-portrait of Ivan Turgenev sitting on a bench surrounded by birch trees, which can be found on Moscow’s Ostozhenka Street.

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Graffiti-portrait of Mikhail Bulgakov and Behemoth the Cat on Bolshoi Afanasyevsky Lane in Moscow, the setting for his most famous work, Master and Margarita.