Deceased Russian opposition chief Alexey Navalny’s posthumous memoir shall be revealed in October by Alfred A. Knopf. The U.S. writer is asking the guide, titled “Patriot,” Navalny’s “closing letter to the world.” 

Navalny, who was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critic, started writing the memoir in 2020, after a near-fatal poisoning that he alleged was carried out by the Kremlin. He died in February on the age of 47, whereas serving a 19-year sentence in a Russian penal colony for prices of “extremism.” 

The memoir tells the total story of Navalny’s life in his personal phrases, together with his youth, his marriage and household, his dedication to advocating for Russian democracy and freedom, and a number of makes an attempt on his life, in line with a press launch from Knopf. It additionally contains beforehand unreleased correspondence from jail.

Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, known as the guide “a testomony not solely to Alexey’s life, however to his unwavering dedication to the struggle in opposition to dictatorship — a struggle he gave every part for, together with his life,” in an announcement shared by Knopf. 

In a publish on X, previously referred to as Twitter, Navalnaya mentioned that this isn’t how she anticipated her late husband to launch his autobiography. “I assumed we might be round 80 years previous, and he’d be sitting on the laptop by the open window, typing away. And I might be grumbling concerning the grandchildren coming quickly, telling him he is busy with nonsense,” the 47-year-old widow wrote. 

She added that the memoir shall be launched concurrently in not less than 11 completely different languages world wide, together with Russian. A primary print of 500,000 copies shall be revealed by Knopf on October 22.