Zakhar Prilepin: “Family happiness is work”

Family and childhood

Evgeny Nikolaevich Prilepin (this is his real name, Zakhar is his creative pseudonym) was born on July 7, 1975 in the maternity hospital of the regional center Skopin in the Ryazan region. The boy spent the first years of his life in the village of Ilyinka, where his father Nikolai Semenovich Prilepin worked as a history teacher, and his mother Tatyana Nikolaevna (nee Nikiforova) worked as a nurse.

Evgeniy has an older sister, Elena. As Zakhar Prilepin recalls, his father was an intelligent man, but a heavy drinker. While intoxicated, the husband raised his hand against his wife, and the son stood up to defend his mother.

Evgeniy Prilepin in childhood

“I was surrounded by colorful people. The character of the father from the story “Forest” was based on my father, and the prototype of the grandfather from the story “Sin” was my grandfather Semyon.

When Zhenya was 10 years old, the family moved to the industrial city of Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region. Soon Prilepin's father died. A mother working at the Korund chemical plant could not feed her two children. Evgeniy began his career at the age of 16 as a loader in a bread store.

After graduating from high school in 1992, the young man moved to Nizhny Novgorod, where it was easier to find work. The income was random and small, so Evgeniy took the summons to the military registration and enlistment office as a solution to life’s problems.

Prilepin, Zakhar

Born on July 7, 1975 in Skopin (Ryazan region). Father - Nikolai Semenovich Prilepin - was the director of a school in the village. Vysokoye (Skopinsky district, Ryazan region), taught history. Mother - Tatyana Nikolaevna Nisiforova - worked as a doctor in a hospital in the village. Ilyinka in the same area.

Spent his childhood in the village. Ilyinka. In 1984, he and his family moved to Dzerzhinsk (Gorkovskaya, now Nizhny Novgorod region), where his father began teaching at a vocational school, and his mother got a job in chemistry. In high school, he was a lyricist and guitarist for the local musical group Inonia. In the early 1990s. entered the philological faculty of Nizhny Novgorod State University. N.I. Lobachevsky. In 1994, he took an academic leave from the university and joined the army. After serving for six months, he was accepted into the Police School at the Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. After graduating, he worked for a short time in the patrol service. In the mid-1990s. became a fighter in the Nizhny Novgorod riot police, later - a squad commander, deputy platoon commander. In 1996, he was a participant in the operation to restore constitutional order in the Chechen Republic, and in 1999, in the counter-terrorism operation on the territory of the Republic of Dagestan. In 1999, he retired from the riot police. In the same year he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Nizhny Novgorod University. Journalism In 2000, he began working as a journalist, and in 2001 he became editor of the Nizhny Novgorod newspaper “Delo”. He signed publications with the pseudonyms Evgeny Lavlinsky, Evgeny Stongard, Denis Nikiforov, Semyon Vostrikov. He worked at Delo for several years and also collaborated with other Nizhny Novgorod media. In the mid-2000s. was the editor-in-chief of the analytical Internet portal "APN - Nizhny Novgorod". In 2007-2015 was the editor-in-chief of the Nizhny Novgorod tab of Novaya Gazeta. Its release was carried out by First Media Group LLC (registered in Nizhny Novgorod in 2006), whose co-founder and general director was Prilepin. Since 2012 - first deputy editor-in-chief of the online publication Svobodnaya Pressa, Sergei Shargunov. At various times he was a columnist for the newspapers “Komsomolskaya Pravda” and “Moskovsky Komsomolets”, the magazine “Ogonyok” and a number of other publications. Literary activity Since 2001, for several years, he worked on the novel “Pathologies” about the Chechen campaign of 1994-1996. It was originally published in the magazine "North" in 2004, and in 2005 it was published as a separate book by the Moscow publishing house "St. Andrew's Flag". From that time on, the writer began to use the name Zakhar Prilepin in literary work and social activities. He became widely famous for the novel “Sankya” about activists of a radical left-patriotic organization, published in 2006. Subsequently, Zakhar Prilepin published the novels “Black Monkey” (2011), “Abode” (2014) and “Some Will Not Go to Hell” (2019) . He has published collections of short stories and stories: “Sin” (2007), “Boots Full of Hot Vodka” (2008), “Eight” (2012), “Seven Lives” (2016). Author of several collections of essays and journalism. The books by Zakhar Prilepin, published in the “Life of Remarkable People” series by the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house, became famous: “Leonid Leonov. His acting was enormous” (2010), “Unlike Poets. Tragedies and destinies of the Bolshevik era. Anatoly Mariengof, Boris Kornilov, Vladimir Lugovskoy" (2015), "Yesenin. Promising a meeting ahead" (2020). In June 2021, at the Red Square book festival, Zakhar Prilepin presented a collection of journalistic texts “The Name of Rivers. 40 reasons to argue about the main thing." In the same year he published a collection of prose “Militia Romance”. The works of Zakhar Prilepin have been translated into 20 foreign languages. A number of the writer’s works were staged in Russian and foreign theaters. Social and political activities In the late 1990s - early 2000s. Zakhar Prilepin took part in the events of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP; banned in the Russian Federation by a decision of the Moscow City Court on April 19, 2007), the founder and leader of which was Eduard Limonov (1943-2020). According to the writer, he joined the NBP in the late 1990s, but according to Eduard Limonov, Prilepin was not a party member. In June 2007, he became co-chairman of the national democratic movement “People” (together with Alexei Navalny and Sergei Gulyaev), which ceased its activities by 2011. Since 2010, Zakhar Prilepin has been a member of the executive committee of the unregistered “Other Russia” party, founded in the same year by former members of the NBP led by Limonov. From December 2015 to August 2021, he served as adviser to the head of the proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Alexander Zakharchenko (died on August 31, 2021 as a result of an explosion in Donetsk). From October 2021 to July 2021, he took part in the conflict in Donbass on the side of the DPR armed forces. In May 2021, he became co-founder and president of the Zakhar Prilepin Charitable Foundation. The organization collects financial donations to provide material assistance to those in need. Previously, since 2014, Prilepin acted as the organizer of the collection and delivery of humanitarian aid to the residents of Donbass. In 2021, he became a co-founder of the autonomous non-profit organization “Center for the Development of Russian Culture, Traditions and Environmental Education Activities “Russian Forest”. In 2021, he was a confidant of the candidate for the post of mayor of Moscow from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Vadim Kumin. In November 2018, he joined the central headquarters of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF). In this regard, the founder of The Other Russia, Eduard Limonov, said that he no longer considers Prilepin a “party comrade.” In October 2019, Zakhar Prilepin became the creator and leader of the public movement “For Truth.” On February 1, 2021, the political party “For Truth” was established on the basis of the movement, Zakhar Prilepin was elected its chairman. He led the party until February 2021, until its liquidation and merger with Sergei Mironov’s A Just Russia and Gennady Semigin’s Patriots of Russia. He was a member of the working group to prepare proposals to amend the Constitution of the Russian Federation (2020). Since February 22, 2021 - co-chairman of the party - chairman of the chamber of deputies of the party "A Just Russia - Patriots - For Truth" (short name - "A Just Russia - For Truth"). Member of the presidium of the party's central council. Elected at the unifying congress of “A Just Russia”, “For Truth” and “Patriots of Russia” (for - 185 delegates, against - 14). The chairman of the united party was Sergei Mironov, the second co-chairman and head of the central council was Gennady Semigin. Zakhar Prilepin is also a member of the public council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Previously, he was a member of the public council under the Russian Ministry of Culture. Member of the Presidium of the Association “Society of Russian Literature”. Co-chairman of the board of trustees of the private institution “Secondary school named after. S. V. Mikhalkov" (Nizhny Novgorod). Work on television In 2013, he hosted a TV interview program called “Prilepin” on the Dozhd channel. In 2015-2017 Zakhar Prilepin was the host of the music program “Salt” (“REN TV”) in 2016-2017. — the author’s program “Tea with Zakhar” (“Tsargrad TV”). From November 2021 to present. V. - presenter of the author’s program “Zakhar Prilepin. Russian lessons" (NTV). Cinema, theater, musical creativity Zakhar Prilepin collaborates with the N. S. Mikhalkov Academy of Cinematographic and Theater Arts and is a visiting master. He acted in films. He played roles in the series “Inspector Cooper” (2012, directed by Anton Koskov and others), the films “Eight” (2014, Alexey Uchitel) and “Guyler” (2019, Pyotr Dikarev). In 2021, he acted as the author of the script for the documentary series “The Great Patriotic War” (it was presented by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the eve of Victory Day on its pages on social networks). Since December 2021, he has been deputy artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky Eduard Boyakov. In the 2010s. Zakhar Prilepin recorded four music albums with the Elefank group, as well as two music albums with rapper Rich (real name Richard Semashkov). In 2021, the premiere of the television series “The Abode” took place (directed by Alexander Veledinsky), based on the novel by Zakhar Prilepin.

Awards Winner of the Russian Government Prize in the field of culture 2016 (for the novel “Abode”).

Winner of a number of literary awards. Among them: “Yasnaya Polyana” (2007, “Sankya”), “National bestseller” (2008, “Sin”), “Big Book” (2014, “Abode”).

Family Married. Wife - Maria. Sons - Gleb and Ignat, daughters - Kira and Lilia.

Education

The guy liked his service in the Russian army. Our hero decided to connect his fate with the paramilitary craft. Evgeniy entered the correspondence department of the Higher Police School in Nizhny Novgorod, and at the same time got a job in the riot police.

Books entered Prilepin’s life from early childhood. The young man became interested in literature, and after graduating from the Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he entered the Faculty of Philology at Nizhny Novgorod University. However, the guy had to interrupt the training, since a platoon of riot police together with him was sent to the war in Chechnya in 1996, where Evgeniy rose to the rank of squad commander.

Prilepin liked to fight; in 1999, the young man took part in the conflict in Dagestan and in the second Chechen War. Then the guy returned to Nizhny Novgorod, left the riot police and completed his studies at the university’s philological faculty.

Evgeny Prilepin in his youth

The salary of the riot policeman Prilepin was not enough. A tall and strong man got a job as a “bouncer” in a nightclub, worked as a security guard and a security guard.

Service

After graduating from school, the young man moved to the regional center, from here he was drafted into the army. This was followed by police school and service in the riot police. The recruit was distinguished by good physical fitness and tall stature. In 1996, Prilepin ended up in Chechnya. Three years later, he had the opportunity to again use weapons in an armed conflict in Dagestan. The riot policeman's salary was small, so he had to work part-time as a security guard in nightclubs or as a laborer. All this time, the future philologist combined his service with studies at the University of Nizhny Novgorod.

Writer and publicist

A certified journalist, Evgeny Prilepin began his career as a correspondent in the Nizhny Novgorod newspaper “Delo” in 2000. The work did not provide moral satisfaction. “It was a yellow newspaper, and in some places it was Black Hundred. I realized that I was wasting my life and talent in vain and sat down to write a novel.”

A year later, Prilepin became editor-in-chief of Delo, publishing original articles under the pseudonym Evgeniy Lavlinsky. Since 2003, Evgeniy began publishing his own poetry in various literary magazines.

The writer’s main achievement at that time was the novel “Pathologies,” which was published in excerpts by various magazines, and this entire work on the Chechen war was published in the publication “St. Andrew’s Flag” in 2005.

The author's literary debut was published under the pseudonym Zakhar Prilepin. The writer considers the pagan name brutal, while Eugene is associated among Russian readers with the dreamy, “softened” Onegin.

In 2006, Prilepin’s second novel, “Sankya,” was published. These two works paved the way for the writer to literary Olympus. Novels, stories, plays and poems have been translated into Polish, French, Chinese, German, English, Italian, Serbian. The author writes columns in Izvestia, Novaya Gazeta, Ogonyok, and other publications.

For subsequent novels, Prilepin received awards and warm reviews from literary critics:

• novel “Sin” (Super-Nationalbest Award);
• collection of short stories “Boots Full of Hot Vodka”;
• collection “I came from Russia”;
• novel "Black Monkey";
• collection of stories "The Eight";
• novel "The Abode";
• collection “Not someone else's troubles”;
• collection “Flying Barge Haulers”;
• collection “Seven Lives”;
• novel “Some Will Not Go to Hell”;
• collection of short stories "Militia Romance".

Prilepin at the presentation of the novel

Literary career of Zakhar Prilepin

Prilepin's work as a journalist was very soon appreciated, and a year later Evgeniy took over the post of editor-in-chief. Recalling this time, Prilepin said the following: “The newspaper was yellow, terrible, in some places even Black Hundred, although it was part of Sergei Kiriyenko’s holding. And I realized that I was wasting my life on nothing - and I began to write a novel.”

In 2000, Evgeniy Nikolaevich began work on his debut novel “Pathologies” under the pseudonym Zakhar Prilepin. The writer was asked more than once about choosing a pseudonym. “I don’t even remember why I chose the name Zakhar. It seemed to me that Evgeny sounds too softened, but Zakhar is a pagan, brutal name. Zakhar Prilepin is so terrible that you immediately want to read what a person with that name writes,” he said.

The first publications of Prilepin the writer appeared in newspapers in 2003. His works were published in the publications “Day of Literature”, “Literary Gazette”, “Limonka” (the central printed organ of the NBP). Soon his books attracted the attention of the publishing house “St. Andrew’s Flag”, and then “Ad Marginem”, which in 2006 published both “Pathologies” and the novel “Sankya”.

In the period from 2004 to 2008, the author was awarded a number of prestigious literary awards: the Boris Sokolov Prize, the Eureka Prize, and the All-China International Literary Prize. His novels were among the Russian Booker and National Bestseller nominees.

In 2011, with the novel “Sin,” Zakhar became the winner of the “Super National Best” and “National Bestseller” awards.

In 2014, the novel “Abode” was published - about life in the Solovetsky camp in the 20s.

Prilepin is also known as a columnist for the publications Ogonyok, Story, and Novaya Gazeta. In 2012, Prilepin headed the editorial office of the Free Press website.

Among his fellow writers, Prilepin’s work evokes different reactions. He is praised by many famous writers, including Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Nobel laureate Günter Grass. However, anti-Semitic statements in Prilepin's novels offended Viktor Shenderovich and Mikhail Shvydkoy.

Actor

Evgeny Prilepin has been acting in films since 2012. Sergei's debut role in the film "Inspector Cooper" was episodic. When Prilepin achieved a film adaptation of his novel Eight, he played a taxi driver. The writer liked being on film sets. Zakhar is also involved in documentaries:

• “President” (dedicated to V.V. Putin);
• “They’ve run out of time”;
• “Notes on mountain customs”;
• "Revolution LIVE";
• "Eternal Patriotic War".

As an actor, Prilepin promoted his own political beliefs. In the film “Duty,” which heroizes “young Novorossiya,” Zakhar played a militia soldier with the call sign “Cat.”

At the end of 2021, Prilepin, who showed acting talent, was appointed deputy artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater.

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Our conversation began with the question of whether Prilepin still believes that a person’s honest path in life will be rewarded sooner or later.

— In one of your interviews, you said that you never calculated anything, did what you were passionate about, loved one woman... A wonderful family, recognition from readers - a reward for this?

- Yes, there are these laws, and they work. And I continue to find confirmation of loyalty to my life choice. For example, regarding family values.

Recently a journalist asked: “I’m surprised at how accurately you describe a woman’s character. Have you known that many women?” And I remembered the words of one of my teachers, the writer Leonid Abramovich Yuzefovich. He once said that a man who has lived with one woman for 20 years knows women better than one who has lived with twenty women for a year.

— Do you think this is really true?

“I began to look around, look at my comrades - at those who lived, say, with ten women over some years. And suddenly I realized that I could give them any advice about women, and most often it was correct. Because I understand women’s psychology better than they do with their wealth of experience. It is somehow spontaneous, destructive and ultimately does not make them any wiser. With every unsuccessful meeting or marriage, you not only do not gain experience, but, on the contrary, you lose part of the experience that you had. And you move on through life with this and ultimately can come to complete cynicism. Such people are sure that everything in the world is a lie, there is no friendship, no love, children are unnecessary, they only repeat our mistakes, and so on.

And to come to this and consider that you have reached some heights?.. And you stand in your wasteland and think that the whole world is a wasteland. Because you yourself are a wasteland.

Therefore, I try to tell people some things in a timely manner - those that I thought of myself, that Yuzefovich told me, that my grandparents said. And they also lived with each other their whole lives and never cheated on each other. But I in no way dispute that people may have another, no less beautiful and amazing way of comprehension.

— For example?

— For example, the writer Hemingway with his many wives. But at the end of his life he said that he should have lived with his first wife and not had any more marriages. Because in the end I didn’t gain anything that I wanted to buy, but only lost. Leo Tolstoy completely ran away from home, from his wife. But first he wrote all his great works... No, I don’t pretend to be the wisdom of the whole world, I’m just saying things that others either don’t say, don’t know yet, or are embarrassed to say. While the opposite point of view to mine is heard from everywhere.

TV screens are filled with people preaching freedom and ease of life. Sometimes they get together in strange couples, and if they have children, it is in some completely unimaginable way. So I just try to balance this world, to say that there is such a way. Which, by the way, is not just me. Among my acquaintances, including famous people, there are many who have strong, friendly, and sometimes large families.

FROM PERSONAL ARCHIVE Zakhar Prilepin with his wife Maria and children (from left to right): Gleb, Liliya, Ignat and Kira

— You and your wife Masha have been together for 20 years. Surely she is your first reader and main adviser. But maybe she is also the main assistant in creative matters?

— You know, there is such a thing as “zhepis,” the writer’s wife. This is when your wife manages all your affairs, quarrels with your publishers, she is your editor, your agent. Leo Tolstoy had such a wife. Leonid Leonov had such a wife.

And I respect these women.

But my wife is not like that at all. I don't need one like that.

I take care of my own business. And to involve your wife in this, to put everything on her shoulders - no.

— When you write, do your household tiptoe around?

- No no. Nobody even knows when I write. When I wrote “The Abode,” my wife said: “Listen, I’m, of course, surprised - such a huge novel, such work! When did you manage to write so much text?

— Let me remember another phrase of yours: “It is important that children never doubt that their father is a man.”

- Yes, so that they will never experience pity or condescension towards you.

In the lowest meaning of these concepts, there is also a high one. It’s terrible when you try to be the king of the situation, and the children ask: dad, please go away, because we are ashamed of you.

But this is a constant work on oneself.

— Masha happened to be waiting for you, then the commander of the riot police unit, from his second business trip to Chechnya. In the preface to “The Abode” you remember yourself at that time - “cheerful, free, camouflaged.” How are you feeling today?

“I definitely don’t feel free to the extent that I was free then.” One daughter is five years old, the other is ten. Two sons.

I am in a constant circle of worries and obligations, which I take calmly. When I left for Chechnya, my wife had already been working the year before, so she didn’t lose her connections and skills.

And now I look at them: they are all... so naked. What are they without me?

REFERENCE

Zakhar (real name Evgeniy) Prilepin was born into the family of a teacher and a nurse. Graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Nizhny Novgorod University. He worked as a laborer, a security guard, served as a squad commander in the riot police, and took part in hostilities in Chechnya in 1996 and 1999. The author of five novels, the last one, “The Abode,” was published in 2014 and the following year became the most read book in Moscow libraries.

Musician and singer

As a teenager, Yevgeny Prilepin tried to perform music. Our hero “matured” for a professional performance in 2011. Zakhar, together with the group “25/17”, performed the rap song “Kittens”. The debut album “Seasons” was released in the same year, where the musician played singles with the group “Elefank”, which he personally created.

Later music collections were published:

• "Coup";
• "Hunter";
• "Pathologies";
• "To the Ocean";
• "Color".

The albums received mixed reviews from the public, ranging from "disgusting" and "unacceptable" to "divine" and "brilliant".

Prilepin - musician and actor

Back in 2011, the writer tried himself as a rap artist and recorded a joint track with musicians from the group “25/17”; he starred in two videos of this team.

At the same time, Prilepin founded his own musical group “Elefank” - the group released three albums, in the recording of which such famous rock musicians as Konstantin Kinchev, Dmitry Revyakin and Alexander Sklyar took part.

Two years later, the writer formed a creative alliance with rapper Rich - together they recorded several compositions.

Zakhar Prilepin also played in the series “Inspector Cooper”, in the film adaptation of his story “Eight” directed by Alexei Uchitel and in the short film “Duty”.

Public figure and politician

Returning from the war in Dagestan, Prilepin became interested in politics and joined the National Bolsheviks of Eduard Limonov. Later the party became known as “The Other Russia”. But he wanted more than to be a simple “bayonet” in the political force.

Prilepin studied at the School of Public Policy and founded his own movement, “The People,” based on the ideas of democratic nationalism. Other co-founders of the “People” movement were Alexei Navalny and Sergei Gulyaev.

Prilepin and Zakharchenko worked in the same direction

In 2010 and 2012 Zakhar Prilepin participated in anti-government rallies, demanding the resignation of President V.V. Putin. In 2014, after the events in Crimea and the war in Donbass, yesterday’s opposition leader began a “personal truce with the authorities.” The Novorossiya project especially excited Prilepin, who traveled around Russia to recruit people to fight as “militias.”

Prilepin himself called this activity the “Interbrigade” project. The point of no return for the writer was the prank when, as a military correspondent, he pointed his weapon towards Ukraine and fired several volleys at the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. After this, the German publication broke the contract with him, and the organizers of the Polish literature festival withdrew the invitation.

Zakhar Prilepin actively collected “humanitarian aid” for the “young republics that rebelled against the Junta.” The writer delivered this humanitarian convoy through sections of the border not controlled by Ukraine to the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.

From the end of 2015 to August 2021, Prilepin, who advocated collecting Russian lands up to the “original Russian city of Kyiv,” served as an adviser to the head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko. Prilepin left the DPR a month before the successful assassination attempt on boss Zakharchenko.

In 2016-18 the hero of our story personally participated in the battles in Donbass and earned the rank of major and the award of the unrecognized republic “Cross of the Union of Donbass Volunteers.” In 2021, Prilepin got tired of delivering a “humanitarian convoy” and Zakhar openly declared that “there is a line of Russian guys” and he is collecting “a battalion of fighters whom he knows where to look.”

But when the politician was accused of being a mercenary, Zakhar disowned it. However, here is a quote: “In 2014, when it all just started, I began to slowly deliver volunteers - first to Lugansk, then to Donbass. The idea of ​​creating our own division arose.” In 2019, in an interview with Alexey Pivovarov in the “Editorial” project, Prilepin stated that he was responsible for the massacres of Ukrainians.

“I led a unit that killed people in large numbers. Everything we did was pure chaos.”

The Security Service of Ukraine initiated criminal proceedings against Prilepin under articles of “financing terrorism” and “participation in the activities of a terrorist organization.”

Policy

In 2004, Prilepin joined the Nizhny Novgorod National Bolsheviks and even headed their newspaper Narodny Observer. Soon Zakhar graduated from the School of Public Policy and became a co-founder of the “People” movement. He continued his opposition activities throughout the following years. He actively participated in mass protest events with slogans about “the need to change the system” and “bringing the country out of the political freeze.” After the events in Crimea, the oppositionist declared a “personal truce” to the authorities. He explained this decision by the changes taking place in the country, which he had been dreaming about for two decades. In 2014, the writer, as a military correspondent, personally visited the combat zone in the south-east of Ukraine, his notes were published in Komsomolskaya Pravda.

Personal life

On the personal front, everything is calm for Prilepin. Zakhar met his lifelong friend when he was a 3rd year university student. A woman named Maria was already an accomplished businesswoman in Nizhny Novgorod. The couple got married in 1997. During a long marriage without scandals or betrayals, four children were born in the family: sons Gleb and Ignat, daughters Kira and Lilia.

Zakhar Prilepin with children

The press got a reason to talk about Zakhar Prilepin’s wife only in 2017, when the odious writer brought his wife from Nizhny Novgorod to Donetsk to get married in the Transfiguration Cathedral. The “groom” walked down the aisle in military camouflage.

What did Zakhar Prilepin write?

Zakhar Prilepin is best known as a writer. According to liters, according to a survey by VTsIOM, in 2015 and 2021 he was one of the top three writers of the year in Russia, and in 2021 he took first place.

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Zakhar Prilepin spoke out against the legalization of weapons in Russia

He formed his opinion based on work in hot spots and service in the police

Among his famous works are “The Abode”, “Platoon. Officers and militias of Russian literature", "Sin", "Black Monkey", the collection "Boots Full of Hot Vodka" and others. The novel “The Abode,” published in 2014, became the best-selling book of the year, according to the website Pro-Books.ru.

In 2019, according to the results of voting on the website of the cultural publication Colta.ru, Prilepin was recognized as the most influential writer of the decade.

The writer's works have been translated into English, German, French, Italian, Chinese and other languages.

Frequently asked questions about Zakhar Prilepin

• What is the nationality of the writer? The hero himself claims that he is a real Russian.
• Why isn't Evgeny running for president of the Russian Federation? The odious writer was aiming for the presidency in 2021, but in the internal party elections of the “Left Front” he was overtaken by Pavel Grudinin.

Prilepin gets married in Donetsk

Zakhar Prilepin is a very controversial personality. In Russia he is known as a talented writer, publicist, actor, musician, active public figure and politician. And abroad he is considered an accomplice of terrorists and the perpetrator of mass murders. So genius and villainy are compatible?

Income of Zakhar Prilepin

Wikipedia reports that in 2021, as a candidate for deputy in local elections, Prilepin published his income statement for 2021, according to which his earnings amounted to 25.8 million rubles from twelve sources of income. In addition, he owns a plot and a share in the right to an apartment with an area of ​​48.8 m² in the Nizhny Novgorod region, Mercedes-Benz GLS-class cars produced in 2016 and a Mitsubishi Pajero Sport with a 2.4 liter engine, in eleven bank the accounts contained a total of 403,763 rubles.