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Book Take Away my Sorrow by Kateryna Gordeeva in Russian

Katerina Gordeeva is one of the most well-known independent journalists in Russia. This is a book about grief. The grief of people with different political views and positions, from different cities in Ukraine and Russia, with different destinies - all united by a common misfortune: war.

Gordeeva loves her protagonists, and from that trust and love are born the documentary testimonies of this terrible time. One day, Katya Gordeeva's books will be used to study history. But not the history of war - the history of the human being in war.

No one was prepared for this experience. And not everyone who might have attempted such work would have had enough soul, perhaps even the soul's own desperation, to hear and record it all, as Katya could.
- Svetlana Alexievich

This year, Katerina Gordeeva received the Anna Politkovskaya Award. For the first time in the award's history, the grand jury's decision was unanimous: since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Katya Gordeeva has personally become an alternative to the enormous machinery of state propaganda. The stories and people gathered in this book are striking. This is a wound that will remain forever. How do you live with it? What about hope? Will it never return? And what if you can't change anything? What Gordeeva records changes the world. You will feel this for yourself now.
- Dmitry Muratov

The book "Take Away My Sorrow" was written by journalist Katerina Gordeeva, who once worked as a special correspondent for Meduza. You probably know her thanks to her very popular YouTube channel "Say to Gordeeva." You may also have seen Gordeeva's film "Man and War." It tells the story of Ukrainian refugees who lost their families and homes because of the invasion. They found themselves in Taganrog, Warsaw, Leipzig, Pskov, Berlin, Brno, and in many other cities - on both sides of this war.

But not all of the interviews Gordeeva conducted made it into the film - there were dozens of hours of conversations. That is where she began her work on this book. The number of protagonists grew week after week - because the war does not end.