“On the anniversary of the murder, thousands of people come to lay flowers. I am sorry that my father will never know how much he was loved and respected.”

On February 27, 2015, one of the most prominent and influential politicians of modern Russia, Boris Nemtsov, was shot dead on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge. Both during his life and even more so after his death, his name is often mentioned in articles and investigations, in someone’s election platforms and memorial speeches, in the texts of the Kremlin press services and the blogs of oppositionists. It seems that they all know well what Boris Nemtsov was like, but sometimes their opinions differ so much that it is very difficult to distinguish truth from fiction. This biography was written by someone who was truly close to Nemtsov and knew the real him — his daughter Zhanna. In the book, she tells not only the story of her family and her relationship with her father, but also recalls her own path: from the daughter of the Nizhny Novgorod governor to a reporter for RBC and Deutsche Welle and a major public figure. Now Zhanna heads the Foundation named after her father, which fights for democratic values ​​and freedom of speech. Zhanna Nemtsova, with her characteristic directness, talks in the book about how her father’s political career began, how relationships in their family were built, what changed with the move to Moscow and work in the government, and, of course, about the day of the murder and the public reaction that followed. This is an incredibly honest book not only about the fate of Zhanna herself and the fate of her father, but also about the fate of an entire country. About the past we have lived through and the future we face.