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Zakhar Prilepin
Захар Прилепин
Prilepin in 2020
Co-chairman ofA Just Russia – For Truth
Incumbent
Assumed office
22 February 2021
President of theFor Truth
In office
1 February 2020 – 22 February 2021
Personal details
Born
Yevgeny Nikolayevich Prilepin

(1975-07-07)7 July 1975(age 49)
Ilyinka,Ryazan Oblast,Russian SFSR,Soviet Union[1]
Political party
Alma materNizhny Novgorod State University
OccupationWriter,Rosgvardiyaofficer, journalist, politician
AwardsOrder of Courage
Military service
Allegiance
Branch/service
Years of service
  • 1994–1999
  • 2016–2018
  • 2023
RankPodpolkovnik[2]
Battles/wars
Writing career
Pen nameZakhar Prilepin
LanguageRussian
PeriodContemporary
Genres
Literary movementRealism
Years active2003–present

Yevgeny Nikolayevich Prilepin(‹See Tfd›Russian:Евге́ний Никола́евич Приле́пин;[3][4][5][6]born 7 July 1975), writing asZakhar Prilepin(‹See Tfd›Russian:Захар Прилепин), and sometimes using another pseudonym,Yevgeny Lavlinsky(‹See Tfd›Russian:Евгений Лавлинский), is a Russianwriter,politicianandparamilitaryleader.

He was a member of Russia'sNational Bolshevik Partyfrom 1996 to 2019 and the leader of the national-conservative political partyFor Truthfrom 1 February 2020 until it merged intoA Just Russiain February 2021.[7]

Biography

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Yevgeny Prilepin was born 7 July 1975 in the village ofIlyinka,Ryazan Oblast,in the family of a teacher and a nurse. His family lived there until 1984, when they moved toDzerzhinsk.[8]He started working at age 16 as a loader in a bread shop.[4]He graduated from the Faculty ofPhilologyof theNizhny Novgorod State Universityand the School of Public Policy. He worked as a laborer, a security guard, and served as a squad leader in the Russian police groupOMON,and subsequently took part in thefightinginChechnyain 1996 and 1999.[4]

Prilepin at the 6 Moscow International Book Festival in 2011

In 1999, due to financial difficulties, Prilepin left OMON and got a job as a journalist at the Nizhny Novgorod newspaperDelo.He published under many pseudonyms, the most famous of which is Eugene Lavlinsky. In 2000, he became the editor of the newspaper. At the same time, Prilepin began to work on his first novel,The Pathologies.[8]

"The newspaper, however, was horribly yellow and sometimes even reactionary, although it was part of the holding ofSergei Kiriyenko.And I realized that I spent a life for nothing – and began to write a novel. At first, it was a novel about love, but eventually (I worked for three or four years), it turned into a novel about Chechnya as about the most powerful experience of my life – as the saying goes, what we are doing always turns out to be a Kalashnikov rifle. "[citation needed]

Works by Prilepin were published in various newspapers, includingLimonka,Literary Gazette,The Edge, General Line, as well as in the magazines North, Friendship of Peoples, Roman-gazeta, New World, Snob, Russian pioneer, and Russian life. He was the chief editor of the People's Observer, the newspaper of Nizhny Novgorod's National Bolshevik Party branch. He participated in the seminar of young writers Moscow – Peredelkino (February 2004) and in the IV, V, and VI Forum of Young Writers in Moscow, Russia.[citation needed]He also wrote a biography ofSovietnovelistLeonid Leonov.[9]He is a member of the ideological think tank theIzborsky Club.[10]

Prilepin was a member of the banned RussianNational Bolshevik Party[4]and a supporter of the coalitionThe Other Russia,and took part in the organization of the Nizhny Novgorod Dissenters' March on 24 March 2007. In July 2012, he published a short essay titled "A Letter to ComradeStalin,"[11]aStalinistcritique aimed against modern Russian "liberal society", which was widely regarded as antisemitic.[12][13]

The media has repeatedly mentioned Prilepin's friendship withVladislav Surkov,whose cousin is married to Prilepin's sister, Yelena.[14]

In February 2017, Prilepin gave a lengthy interview, in which he revealed that he was leading a volunteer battalion in the self-proclaimedPeople's Republic of Donetsk.The battalion was the 4th Reconnaissance and Assault Battalion of the Special Forces of theArmed forces of DNR,commonly known as Prilepin's Battalion; Prilepin claimed it had been created in July 2016 on his initiative and announced "we will ride on a white horse into any town we've abandoned." Prilepin further said he was second in command with the rank of major.[15][16]Prilepin was an influential figure and a celebrity in the DNR and the concept of Malorossiya was seemingly created by him.[17]

In late July 2018, Prilepin returned "demobilized" toMoscow;[18]the battalion he had served in was disbanded in September 2018.[19][20]Prilepin boasted that the battalion had killed more Ukrainians than any other. However, there is no evidence that he took part in any actual combat.[21][22][23]He is wanted on terrorism charges in Ukraine, and was denied entry to Bosnia-Herzegovina for security reasons.[21][24]

On 29 November 2018, he joined theAll-Russian People's Front.[25]Because of this, he was excluded fromThe Other Russiapolitical party by its founderEduard Limonov,who had earlier, together with party members, told Prilepin to choose between the two political structures.[26]

On 29 October 2019, he created the public movementFor Truth(За правду). He intended for the movement to be transformed into a political party that will participate in the2021 legislative election.[27]However, the party merged intoA Just Russiain February 2021.[7]

Prilepin strongly supported Russia's renewed invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. For his support of the war in Ukraine, Prilepin has been sanctioned by Australia, Canada, the European Union, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom[28]The European Union had included him in the very first round of sanctions on 28 February 2022 on those supporting the invasion.[29] In January 2023, Prilepin signed a contract to join theRussian National Guardand fought in Ukraine for a second time.[30]

Antisemitic controversy

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In July 2012 Prilepin published a short essay titled "A Letter to comrade Stalin",[31]which provoked outrage[32]and accusations of antisemitism.[33][34][35]In the essay written in the 1st person of collective Jewish consciousness[13]contains "autoaccusations" of antisemitic nature, and "admissions of crimes" against Russian people, culture and economy.[36]

Assassination attempt

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On 6 May 2023, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, on the way to Moscow from the Russian-occupied territories of the Donetsk and Luhansk, Prilepin's car was blown up. Prilepin was injured, and his bodyguard died.[37]According to the BBC, theAtesh partisan movementclaimed responsibility for the attack.[38]The attack was the third of this type targeting pro-war figures to happen in Russia after the start of its invasion of Ukraine, with the earlier ones having been the killing ofDarya Duginaand the2023 Saint Petersburg bombingthat killedVladlen Tatarsky.[39]On 6 June 2023,Vladimir Putinawarded Prilepin theOrder of Courage.[40]

On 30 September 2024, Alexander Permyakov, a former pro-Russian separatist fighter from theDonbasregion of eastern Ukraine, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the attack.[41]

Personal life

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Prilepin is married to Maria and has two sons and two daughters: Gleb, Ignat, Kira, and Lilia. Prilepin lives inNizhny Novgorod.[42][8]

Bibliography

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Novels

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  • Санькя– Sankya, Novel.Ad Marginem, Moscow 2006, 280 pagesISBN978-5-91103-078-0
  • Патологии– The Pathologies, Novel.Andreevsky Flag, Moscow 2005, 250 pagesISBN978-5-17-073224-1
  • Грех– Sin.Vargius, Moscow 2007ISBN978-9-08-182393-7
  • Чёрная обезьяна[ru](Black Ape)AST,Moscow 2012ISBN978-5-17-137378-8
  • Обитель.(Abode)AST,Moscow 2014ISBN978-5170844838

Stories

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  • Ботинки, полные горячей водкой.(Shoes Filled with Hot Vodka)AST,Moscow 2008
  • Война.(War)AST,Moscow 2008
  • Революция.(Revolution)AST,Moscow 2009

Essays

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  • Я пришёл из России.(I Came from Russia) Moscow 2008
  • Terra Tartarara. Это касается лично меня "(сборник эссе).(Terra Tartarara. It Personally Corncerns Me)AST,Moscow 2009
  • Летучие бурлаки.(FlyingBurlaks)AST,Moscow 2014

Other

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  • Леонид Леонов: Игра его была огромна.(Leonid Leonov:His Play was Great)Molodaya Gvardiya,Moscow 2010
  • Книгочёт.(The Bookgazer) Astrel, Moscow 2012
  • Именины сердца. Разговоры с русской литературой.(Heart's birthday. Conversations with Russian Literature)AST,Moscow 2009

References

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