Knopf to publish posthumous memoir of Alexey Navalny in October

Deceased Russian opposition chief Alexey Navalny’s posthumous memoir can be revealed in October by Alfred A. Knopf. The U.S. writer is looking the e book, titled “Patriot,” Navalny’s “closing letter to the world.” 

Navalny, who was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critic, started writing the memoir in 2020, after a near-fatal poisoning that he alleged was carried out by the Kremlin. He died in February at the age of 47, whereas serving a 19-year sentence in a Russian penal colony for fees of “extremism.” 

The memoir tells the total story of Navalny’s life in his personal phrases, together with his youth, his marriage and household, his dedication to advocating for Russian democracy and freedom, and a number of makes an attempt on his life, based on a press launch from Knopf. It additionally contains beforehand unreleased correspondence from prison.

Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, known as the e book “a testomony not solely to Alexey’s life, however to his unwavering dedication to the struggle towards dictatorship — a struggle he gave every thing for, together with his life,” in an announcement shared by Knopf. 

However this isn’t how Navalnaya anticipated her late husband to launch his autobiography. “I believed we would be round 80 years outdated, and he’d be sitting on the laptop by the open window, typing away. And I’d be grumbling in regards to the grandchildren coming quickly, telling him he is busy with nonsense,” the 47-year-old widow wrote in a publish on X. 

She added that the memoir can be launched concurrently in a minimum of 11 completely different languages around the globe, together with Russian. A primary print of 500,000 copies can be revealed by Knopf on October 22.

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