Пожалуйста, живи. Чеченские войны, мама и я

'Pozhaluĭsta, zhivi!' - poslednee soobshchenie, kotoroe pi͡atnadt͡satiletni͡ai͡a Lana Ėstemirova otpravila svoeĭ materi Natalʹe, chechenskoĭ pravozashchitnit͡se, zhurnalistke, sotrudnit͡se 'Memoriala'. V tot zhe denʹ Natalʹi͡u Ėstemirovu pokhitili vozle doma i ubili. Spusti͡a mnogo let Lana smogla napisatʹ ėtu knigu, v kotoroĭ estʹ i detskie vospominanii͡a o voennoĭ i poslevoennoĭ Chechne, i semeĭnai͡a istorii͡a, okhvatyvai͡ushchai͡a vesʹ dvadt͡satyĭ vek, i biografii͡a neobyknovenno khrabroĭ zhenshchiny, verivsheĭ v spravedlivostʹ i dobivavsheĭsi͡a ee li͡uboĭ t͡senoĭ - dazhe tam, gde ėto bylo zavedomo nevozmozhno. No eshche 'Pozhaluĭsta, zhivi' - universalʹnai͡a i pronzitelʹnai͡a istorii͡a o materinskoĭ li͡ubvi i o dolgom, neprostom prozhivanii utraty. V 2025 godu kniga vyshla na angliĭskom i͡azyke v britanskom izdatelʹstve John Murray, na russkom vykhodit vpervye.

"Please live! This is the last message that fifteen—year-old Lana Estemirova sent to her mother Natalia, a Chechen human rights activist, journalist, and employee of Memorial. On the same day, Natalia Estemirova was abducted near her home and killed. Many years later, Lana was able to write this book, which contains childhood memories of military and post—war Chechnya, a family story spanning the entire twentieth century, and the biography of an extraordinarily brave woman who believed in justice and sought it at any cost - even where it was obviously impossible. But also 'Please live' is a universal and poignant story about maternal love and the long, difficult experience of loss. In 2025, the book was published in English by the British publisher John Murray, and it is being published in Russian for the first time.