The police removed the artist Ivan Volkov from the train to Moscow, who placed an art object in the form of a giant feces on the Field of Mars in St. Petersburg. The artist was ironic about the poor cleaning of snow and ice in the city. However, now the police have opened a criminal case under Article 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation for “cynical and immoral desecration” of the burial places of the dead. Many famous Bolsheviks rest on the Field of Mars. Moscow artist Ivan Volkov was detained by the police of St. Petersburg, and a criminal case was initiated against him under article 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Desecration of the bodies of the dead and their burial places." As the community of artists Young Artists & Collectors Club (YACC) reports on its Telegram channel, Volkov is now at the police station.

“... deliberately, cynically, immorally, out of hooligan motives, neglecting the generally accepted rules and norms of behavior established in society, [Volkov] placed an art object made of snow in the form of giant feces in a yellow puddle, thus, his deliberately defiling the burial place of the dead”,

- Fontanka reports with reference to the decision to initiate a criminal case.

According to the artist's friends, he was removed from the train to Moscow. Under Article 244, the maximum penalty is up to five years in prison.

“We believe that this situation should be made public, because no one knows how events will develop. Presumably, this will be another criminal case. Lawyers connected. At the moment, we do not have more accurate information, ”the YACC post says.

“This is not a stunt. This is an action, the purpose of which is to show how the municipal services of St. Petersburg work. Because the Champ de Mars has been turned into a mass dog walk, and everything is filthy there. And this turd did not appear there by chance. The emphasis is to show - is this not an insult, does this not show the attitude towards the place that is so revered in our country? - said in a conversation with the Daily Storm the curator of the artist, gallery owner Alexander Sharov.

It is reported that Sharov has attracted lawyers to protect the rights of the artist.

A necropolis with an eternal flame has been located on the Field of Mars since the 1920s. A number of well-known Bolsheviks and Chekists are buried there, and mass graves of fallen revolutionaries are located.

The mother of the artist Ivan Volkov, Larisa, in a conversation with, said that the young man did not want to offend anyone with his work, and his art objects are “a language of expression”.

"I don't think there was any malice in all of this at all. Moreover, he did not want to offend, I am 100% sure of this, I know. I saw his sketches, but he never said any words that he wanted to inflict some kind of malicious intent. There is nothing in this, it's just his language of expression and that's all he can do, because he is a completely free artist who worked in Berlin, made his installations, and there were no problems with it,” said Larisa Volkova./ i

According to her, Ivan did not know that there was a communist necropolis on the Field of Mars. Her son, the woman added, is "absolutely apolitical."

“Besides, this is not mentioned anywhere, there are no signs there, there is no cemetery and so on. This is his language, his language of address, he can do nothing more. He is a sculptor by birth, snow is his clay. So he expressed some of his own ... You know, it’s hard for me to talk, honestly. If necessary, I can say this openly, apologize, there was no malicious intent," she stressed.

Volkova added that during the arrest, the young man sent her a text message asking her not to worry; no further information was received from him.

On his Instagram, Ivan Volkov regularly publishes photos of his installations, which he makes from snow. Among them are penguins, snowmen and other sculptures.

An art object in the form of a five-meter feces made of snow appeared on the Field of Mars on January 13, during a thaw. A day later, the janitors removed it. “The object was removed, since this territory is not only a ZNOP [public green space], but also a memorial object on which it is unacceptable to place such elements of folk art,” Fontanka reports Smolny’s statement.

In the caption to a Facebook post with pictures of the brown sculpture, Volkov himself wrote: “So beautiful that he crap like that.” The post is currently unavailable.

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Who is buried on the Field of Mars?

The Field of Mars is a square in the center of St. Petersburg, in the 19th century military parades and festivities were held there, in the late 1910s the most popular skating rink in the city, an indoor skating rink, was opened there for roller skating "American Roller Ring".After the February Revolution in 1917, they decided to create a mass grave there for those who died during urban riots and street battles. Subsequently, a necropolis was formed there for those who died during the October Revolution and the Civil War of the Bolsheviks. The eternal flame on the Field of Mars was lit in 1957 - the first in the USSR.

In the necropolis on Marsovy, among others, Moses Uritsky, the first head of the Petrograd Cheka, who was shot dead in 1918 by the poet Leonid Kannegisser, is buried. After the death of Uritsky, the Red Terror began.

Also, V. Volodarsky (real name Moses Goldstein) is buried there - the commissar for the press, a Bolshevik propagandist, who was killed by a Socialist-Revolutionary in 1918 on his way to a rally. There are also graves of several Latvian riflemen and their commissar Semyon Nakhimson who died during the suppression of the Yaroslavl uprising. The Soviet military leader Rudolf Sievers, an active figure in decossackization - red repressions carried out on the Don against Cossacks and priests, is also buried there. In addition, the remains of other commissars and revolutionaries are buried on the Field of Mars - more than 100 people in total.

“... Not victims - heroes lie under this grave. Not grief, but envy gives birth to your fate in the hearts of all grateful descendants. In those terrible red days you lived gloriously and died beautifully. The sons of St. Petersburg have now joined the host of the great heroes of uprisings of different times who have passed away in the name of the heyday of life, the crowds of Jacobins, fighters [of the French Revolution 18]48, the crowds of Communards have now joined the sons of St.

“I saw the Field of Mars, where they had just performed, as a kind of traditional sacrifice of the revolution, the comedy of the funeral of the heroes who allegedly died for freedom. What needs, that it was, in fact, a mockery of the dead, that they were deprived of an honest Christian burial, boarded up in red coffins for some reason and unnaturally buried in the very center of the city of the living,

- wrote the Nobel Prize winner in literature, Russian writer Ivan Bunin in Cursed Days.

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