The outstanding contemporary photographer Dmitry Markov didn't capture Russian reality from a distance—he lived in the thick of it. The "wild nineties," the rise of the volunteer movement, rallies in support of Pussy Riot and Alexei Navalny, the revelation of the Russian army's involvement in the war in Donbas in 2014—all of this was part of his biography. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine divided his audience and hastened his demise. This book about Markov is not only a story about a photographer but also an attempt to capture a time in which personal destiny is inseparable from the fate of the country.