I may err, but it seems to me that this anagram was devised by VN, not me:
 
GOLOVA + IN VINO VERITAS + BARN = IVAN GOLOVIN + SATIRA + BREVNO
 
golova is Russian for "head;" In vino veritas, "in wine is truth," is a Latin proverb; satira is Russian for "satire;" brevno is Russian for "log"
Brevno does become a god in Vladimir Solovyov's fable "Эфиопы и бревно" ("The Ethiopians and a Log," 1894).
 
Alexey Sklyarenko
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