evidence: Although Pomerantsev does not write about these figures (he only briefly mentions Voina’s actions and "the great tricksters of the Monstration movement"[149]), it is with apparent tenderness that he describes the conceptualist artist Vladislav Mamyshev-Monro whose impersonations of various cultural and political celebrities, including "the President", were at first perceived as a part of the culture of simulation but turned out to be its subversion incompatible with the new political freeze: "Vladik himself was dead. He was found floating in a pool in Bali. Death by heart attack. Right at the end an oligarch acquaintance had made him an offer to come over to the Kremlin side and star in a series of paintings in which he would dress up and appear in a photo shoot that portrayed the new protest leaders sodomizing. Vladik had refused" (278).