"On 6 March, Stanislav Karmakskikh, a carpenter in the Siberian city of Tomsk, was arrested. His crime was attending a small protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in which he stood, wrapped up against the snow, holding a home-printed reproduction of Vasily Vereshchagin’s The Apotheosis of War. The gruesome 1871 painting shows a pile of skulls – the spoils of war – and was made by Vereshchagin following his attachment with the Imperial Russian Army as they conquered lands in what is modern-day southeastern Uzbekistan."