As hetman, or head, of Cossack Ukraine, Mazepa sought to balance the demands of neighbouring Moscow and Warsaw. Of the Mazepa statue, he added: “I don’t think it’s a controversial idea.” View image in fullscreen A statue of the writer Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) at his former house in Kyiv, Ukraine. Photograph: De Rocker/AlamyHabianuri said a process of “simplification” was under way but was delighted when demonstrators pulled down the Lenin statue, saying: “The man was an enemy of humanity itself.” Unlike Lenin, the Bulgakov statue was carefully packed up and returned to the family of its late sculptor, Mykola Rapay.