Zakhar Prilepin is a prose writer, publicist, musician, and recipient of the “Big Book,” “National Bestseller,” and “Yasnaya Polyana” awards. He is the author of the novels “Obitel,” “Sankya,” “Pathologies,” “The Black Monkey,” and the story cycles “The Eight,” “Sin,” “Boots Full of Hot Vodka,” and “Seven Lives,” as well as the collections of publicism “Peresvet is Coming to Us,” “Flying Bargemen,” “Not an Unfamiliar Uproar,” “Platoon,” and “Some Will Not Make It to Hell.” “Militia Romance” is his first attempt at an artistic—not publicistic—interpretation of the military years lived through in Donbas.