A metal bucket. A Zippo lighter. A bottle of sambuca. That was the strange set of items Oleg asked us to bring to the penal colony on the day of his release. We didn’t understand why, but we brought everything. So this, it turns out, was why. In the photo: the ritual burning of his prison uniform, doused with sambuca. Turns out it works beautifully. So if you need to set something on fire, use sambuca.