About the book: 2021 / In her new book, journalist and human rights activist Eva Merkacheva addresses the topic of high-profile crimes in recent years, many of which are still heard today. But only this book contains details of the judicial vicissitudes and prison everyday life of such famous prisoners as Governor Furgal, nationalist Tesak, priest Sergius (Romanov) and other VIPs who found themselves in Russian prisons. At the same time, the author devotes many of his publications to the problems of a “little” person who has fallen into the millstones of justice either for a petty crime, or even due to a misunderstanding or slander. Understanding of broken destinies, raw nerves and an impartial state are intertwined in the work of Eva Merkacheva. And how can one not remember Pushkin’s lines here: And for a long time I will be kind to the people, That I awakened good feelings with the lyre, That in my cruel age I glorified freedom And called on mercy for the fallen…