The images of the snake that allegedly swallowed the AK-47, since 2019, publish both Russian-speaking and Western users of social networks. We checked the authenticity of such photographs.

Photos of the snake, which allegedly swallowed the Kalashnikov assault rifle, periodically appear in social networks over the past one and a half years. Typically, images are equipped with short allegations like “The Snake swallowed AK-47”-there are such publications, for example, in one of the groups in "VKontakte". User "Mail.ru answers" seriously Interested inWhat is shown in pictures with an unusual snake. In some communities - for example, on Pikabu - Similar messages are accompanied by humorous signatures. Images of the snake that swallowed the machine is also on foreign resources. So, the user of the 9GAG site is ironic Noticethat since this is AK-47, then the snake is probably from Russia.

Despite the relatively complex shape of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, many Internet users believed that the snake is able to swallow it. Probably, such a belief is based on the news regularly coming from all over the world about how ignorant reptiles are in food. For example, reports appeared in the media about how snakes of different species swallowed porcupine, deer And even man. Some animals do not disdain and frankly inedible objects. For example, in 2020, the Australian veterinarians had to help Python, who decided to eat a huge beach towel, but in India failed Save the snake that swallowed a large plastic bottle.

The snake, which allegedly swallowed the machine, appears only in two photographs, as well as on their cut or 90 degrees of copies. On the first of the original pictures, the animal is captured closely, on the second - on the slope of the hill, and in the background the temple is clearly visible. The pose in which the snake lies is approximately the same in both cases, only in the second photo the animal seemed slightly turned counterclockwise.

The earliest publication with these images that we managed to find, - fast Vasily Blondov on Facebook. Photos are accompanied by the signature “Python and AK-47”, as well as several hashtags, including #ART, #CONTEMPORARAT, #Siberian Irine conceptualism and #1112Gallery.

"Gallery 11.12" - an exhibition space located in the Center for Modern Art "Vincuvod" in Moscow. For several years, a gallery Collaborates With the artist Vasily Iblonov from Krasnoyarsk. Work called "Python and AK-47" has really has-he Created Its of rubber in 2019. According to Artprice.com, to purchase such a "snake" Can for € 5000.