Key facts
- Evan Gershkovich's memoir, "This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian-American Story," details his nearly 500 days in Russian prison.
- He was arrested in April 2023 while reporting on Russia's military-industrial sector.
- Gershkovich was released in summer 2024 as part of a prisoner exchange.
- The memoir explores interactions with captors and observations of events like the Wagner Group uprising.
- Gershkovich draws attention to the suffering of other Ukrainian prisoners, including Viktoria Roshchyna.