A rustic scene and 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle from educa featuring the exterior of a typical french pavement cafe and restaurant viktor shvaiko was born in altai russia in 1965 the son of an economist and an engineer he grew up in one of russias most remote villages surrounded by the beauty of the wilderness in the us shvaiko developed his penchant for painting little cafes and other intimate places that are seen in his contemporary workhe paints from dark to light using a variety of