A Russian pastoral. How a killer sentenced to 21 years in prison was pardoned by Putin and died in the war in Ukraine
Denis Zubov's grave. Photo by the Dozor project (Volgograd) 10 years ago, Denis Zubov, a shepherd from the Volgograd region, killed three people: a former girlfriend with whom he worked on a farm, her new lover and a pensioner he met on a bus. He cut off parts of his victims’ bodies in order, as he explained during interrogation, to pose as a serial killer and confuse the investigation.