Evan Gershkovich

Wednesday, September 30, 2026•7:00 PM

In This Cursed Beautiful Land: A Russian-American Story, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was wrongly imprisoned in Russia for more than a year recounts the events leading to his arrest, his nearly 500 days in Russian prisons, and the multi-country prisoner swap that freed him.

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600 I St NW, Washington, DC 20001

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