About the Book: This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian Story
Propulsive … a taut thriller PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE
I think I hear Solzhenitsyn applauding in his grave ERIK LARSON
The revelatory, much-anticipated memoir from the Wall Street Journal reporter
who was wrongly imprisoned in Putins Russia a glimpse inside the perils and
contradictions of a country ruled by autocracy.
In March 2023, a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, Evan Gershkovich, a young
reporter for the Wall Street Journal, sat down with a source in an empty
restaurant 900 miles east of Moscow. Within moments, a squad of masked FSB
agents charged in, blindfolded Evan, and