Not a stranger to strife. One day - one year

A new book of essays "Not a stranger to strife" is dedicated to the Ukrainian-Russian tragedy 2014. Stories, timeline, travel sketches from trips to the new Russia is closely intertwined with reflections on Russian history, Russian culture and Russian world. "This has been brewing for a year, and once fell as hail. ...Since November 2013, with the emergence of the Euromaidan in Kiev, I wrote a strange distemper, distemper became his, not so much describing the events, considering how much their feelings, the chief of which was: "It's already happened to us! This is not the first time!". It was found that a variety of events from Russian history are connected with what is happening directly, even if there was a hundred or a thousand years ago. What Russian literature, beliefs and judgments of national classics wonderfully illustrate what we saw, heard and experienced during the year. I'm not ashamed of what I said — and I remain convinced that my eyes were sober, and his judgment is reasonable. Those who think differently, I will say one thing: I look at everything through the eyes of the people to whom I have the happiness to belong". (Zakhar Prilepin)