Pisarz i protest. Szkic do dysydenckiego portretu borisa akunina
The writer and the protest: a study for the portrait of boris akunin as a dissident

Summary/Abstract: This article refers to the public biography of the recent years in the life of Boris Akunin, one of the most widely read among contemporary Russian writers. As part of his political activity, Akunin, or Grigori Chkhartishvili, acted under his own name and actively supported the anti-Putin movement during the 2011–2012 protests. The experience gained there and the political events of the last 10 years have left him disappointed and resulted in him becoming an expat. However, mobilized by the circumstances, Akunin launched a new literary project called История Российского Государвства (History of the Russian State), which is conceived as his original attempt to answer some of the perennial questions about Russia.

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