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Deceased Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny’s posthumous memoir will be published in October by Alfred A. Knopf. The U.S. publisher is calling the book, titled “Patriot,” Navalny’s “final letter to the world.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Navalny, who was Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most outspoken critic, began writing the memoir in 2020, after a near-fatal poisoning that\u00a0he alleged<\/span>\u00a0was carried out by the Kremlin.\u00a0He died in February at the age of 47<\/span>, while serving a 19-year sentence in a Russian penal colony<\/span> for charges of “extremism.”\u00a0<\/p>\n The memoir tells the full story of Navalny’s life in his own words, including his youth, his marriage and family, his commitment to advocating for Russian democracy and freedom, and multiple attempts on his life, according to a press release from Knopf. It also includes previously\u00a0unreleased correspondence from prison<\/span>.<\/p>\n