An untitled illustration for "Uncle Tom's Cabin", 2016, ink on paper, 48 x 29 inches. It was included in the exhibition called "Soviet Lives of Uncle Tom".
 
From https://actipedia.org/project/soviet-lives-uncle-tom
 
"Having read one of many Soviet children's editions of the book as a child and later becoming impressed by its global success, I have never attempted to illustrate it traditionally, in the manner of Hammatt Billings, its first illustrator, and those who followed him," says Dmitry. " I illustrate the handling of the book by Russian censors, editors, preface and afterword writers, publishers. Although it was published in Russia about three years before statutory abolition of serfdom, and already then manipulated for the Russian government's benefit, I focus on Soviet manipulations of the classic, performed by those who were living in Soviet bondage upon a novel about bondage in America. I still remember the late Soviet treatment of this novel, when it was employed widely for anti-capitalist, anti-American propaganda, extolment of USSR as the righteous opposite of USA, advancement of Soviet hegemonic goals," concludes the artist.