A memoir Alexei Navalny started engaged on in 2020 can be printed this fall.
“Patriot”, which writer Alfred A Knopf is looking the late Russian opposition chief’s “closing letter to the world”, will come out on 22 October.
Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, stated in a press release launched Thursday by the writer: “This guide is a testomony not solely to Alexei’s life, however to his unwavering dedication to the struggle in opposition to dictatorship – a struggle he gave every little thing for, together with his life.
“By its pages, readers will come to know the person I liked deeply – a person of profound integrity and unyielding braveness. Sharing his story is not going to solely honor his reminiscence but additionally encourage others to face up for what is correct and to by no means lose sight of the values that really matter.”
Navalny, 47, died in February whereas serving a 19-year jail sentence on extremism costs that he condemned as politically motivated. He was jailed after coming back from Germany in January 2021, the place he was recuperating from the 2020 nerve agent poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin, and was given three jail phrases since.
He died in a distant penal colony above the Arctic Circle. Russian officers have vehemently denied involvement each within the poisoning and in his demise.
In response to Knopf, Navalny started engaged on the guide in Germany, and continued writing it in Russia, each out and in of jail.
“In vivid, page-turning element, together with never-before-seen correspondence from jail, Navalny recounts, amongst different issues, his political profession, the various makes an attempt on his life, and the lives of the individuals closest to him, and the relentless marketing campaign he and his crew waged in opposition to an more and more dictatorial regime,” Knopf’s announcement reads partly.
“Written with the eagerness, wit, candor, and bravado for which he was justly acclaimed, ‘Patriot’ is Navalny’s closing letter to the world: a transferring account of his final years spent in probably the most brutal jail on earth; a reminder of why the rules of particular person freedom matter so deeply; and a rousing name to proceed the work for which he sacrificed his life.”
In a thread on X, previously Twitter, Navalnaya stated Thursday that she had envisioned her husband writing a memoir a lot later in his life, after they’re each “round 80” and have grandchildren.
Many prompted Navalny to start out writing after the poisoning, she stated, however he initially disregarded these ideas: “What sort of memoir is it if you’re 44? It is solely been a bit greater than half (his) life. He wasn’t in a rush – a lot was but to return. Nevertheless it turned out the way in which it turned out. Horrible and really, very unfair. It turned on the market was no different half forward.”
She stated the memoir has already been translated into 11 languages and can “undoubtedly” be printed in Russian, as properly. It wasn’t clear from her remarks if the guide will come out in Russia, nevertheless, the place Navalny was convicted as a pacesetter of an extremist group, and his basis and workplaces have been outlawed.
