Take Away My Sorrow

Ekaterina Gordeeva is one of the most renowned independent journalists in Russia. This book is about sorrow. The sorrow of people with different political views and positions, from different cities in Ukraine and Russia, with different fates, united by a common tragedy - war.

Gordeeva loves her heroes, and from trust and love, the documentary testimonies of this terrifying time are born. One day, the history will be studied through Katia Gordeeva's books. But not the history of war, rather the history of a person in war.

No one was prepared for this experience. And not everyone who would take on this work would have enough soul, perhaps even the desperation of the soul, to hear and record all of this, as Katia has. - Svetlana Alexievich

This year, Ekaterina Gordeeva received the Anna Politkovskaya Prize. The grand jury unanimously awarded this prize for the first time in its history: since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Katia Gordeeva has personally become an alternative to the enormous machine of state propaganda. The stories and people gathered in this book are astonishing. This is a wound that is now forever. How to live with it? How to have hope? Will it never be there again? And what to do if you can change nothing? What Gordeeva records changes the world. You will experience this yourself now. - Dmitry Muratov