Evan Gershkovich survived the terrors of prison in Putin’s Russia. Not every journalist was equally lucky.
According to reporting by The Forward, This Cursed Beautiful Land By Evan Gershkovich Crown, 432 pages, $34 In Evan Gershkovich’s memoir This Cursed Beautiful Land, the Wall Street Journal reporter relives his ordeal to give readers a firsthand account of how Russia’s prisons and its repressive.
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According to reporting by The Forward, This Cursed Beautiful Land By Evan Gershkovich Crown, 432 pages, $34 In Evan Gershkovich’s memoir This Cursed Beautiful Land, the Wall Street Journal reporter relives his ordeal to give readers a firsthand account of how Russia’s prisons and its repressive.
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Evan Gershkovich greets his colleagues and the press at Joint Base Andrews, MD on Aug. 1, 2024. Photo by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images
In Evan Gershkovich’s memoir This Cursed Beautiful Land , the Wall Street Journal reporter relives his ordeal to give readers a firsthand account of how Russia’s prisons and its repressive legal system operate under Putin’s wartime regime.
Gershkovich survived 491 days in the Russian prison system and was released as part of the largest prisoner exchange between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. His story echoes the way in which Dostoevsky escaped death by firing squad at the last minute. Tsar Nicholas I had already commuted his death sentence to four years of hard labor in Siberia, followed by military service, but ordered the execution to be staged anyway, right up until the soldiers took aim (one of the men condemned along with Dostoevsky lost his mind as а result). In July 2024, after a closed trial, Gershkovich was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 16 years, only to be freed less than two weeks later.
In February 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale war in Ukraine, Gershkovich was at a high point in his career. He had just joined The Wall Street Journa l and, he writes, “was itching to get into the action.” Russia can be especially cruel to this kind of daring.
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