Katerina Gordeeva is one of the most famous independent journalists in Russia. This is a book about grief. The grief of people with different political views and positions, from different cities of Ukraine and Russia, with different destinies, who were united by a common misfortune - war. Gordeeva loves her heroes, and out of trust and love, documentary evidence of this terrible time is born. Someday, using the books of Katya Gordeeva, study history. But not the history of war, but the history of man at war. Nobody was prepared for this experience. And not everyone who would take on this work would have enough soul, perhaps even the despair of the soul, to hear all this and write it down, as given to Katya. - Svetlana Alexievich This year Katerina Gordeeva received the Anna Politkovskaya Prize.