Katerina Gordeeva: «Take my grief away» - book presentation

Katerina Gordeeva is primarily known for her YouTube project ‘Skazhi Gordeevoi’ (‘Tell Gordeeva’) where she interviews various thinkers and other famous people. Since the invasion of Ukraine all of her episodes are dedicated to finding answers to the questions of how this could have happened and how to live with it. She also produced a documentary film called ‘Man and War’ about the stories of Ukrainian refugees who were deprived of family and home by the invasion, so they found themselves scattered on both sides of the war: in Taganrog, Warsaw, Leipzig, Pskov, Berlin and other cities. The movie did not include hundreds of interviews that Katerina Gordeeva took. The work on her book started from these interviews. In the making process the number of interviews were only increasing – because the war still does not end.The book ‘Take My Grief Away’ was released in December 2023 by the ‘Meduza’ publishing house. For obvious reasons, it is not being sold in the Russian Federation.In Tbilisi the book will be available for purchase in the halls where the presentations will be held. Svetlana Alexievich, the Nobel Prize winner in literature, said about the publication: “One day history will be studied by Katya Gordeeva’s books. Not the history of war, but the history of a man at war. No one was ready for this experience. And not everyone who would have taken on this work would have had the soul, maybe even the desperation of the soul, to hear and write it all down, as Katya was given to do.”