#10) “Bubuka” – Alexander Kalugin

Kalugin spent a great deal of time incarcerated in Russian prisons and mental hospitals. His “crimes” and “medical diagnoses” were fabrications such as “sluggish schizophrenia” that kept him locked-up and quiet. He is a self-trained artist and liked to draw portraits of those around him while in confinement.  According to Kalugin, “Bubuka” was a patient in the psychiatric ward who never spoke to anyone.  He only mumbled under his breath to himself.  In Russian, “he mumbled,” is “bubnil,” hence Bubuka was his nickname.