An alcoholic during the Gorbachev Prohibition period drinking three household products simultaneously for their alcohol content. Colour lithograph after V. K︠︡iunnap, ca. 1987.

He is a "polyglot" in two senses: he speaks a lot of languages and he is a multiple glutton (swallows a lot). On his table are several Soviet products (the insecticide Carbofos, the aftershave Attaché, and Denaturat methylated spirits) together with foreign ones: Satin silver High Shine Polish; shampoo spelled with a Czech š; Losion oguretschni (cucumber lotion) with Finnish orthography. He rests his elbow on three foreign-language dictionaries: English-Russian, Finnish-Russian and French-Russian). The implication is that this "polyglot" is learning foreign languages in order to cadge alcohol-products off foreigners, and to be able to identify the products from the labels