A scary and evil novel from a former journalist of "Batya" about how in the outback
Informals are at war with the church. Based on real events.
A provincial town in Russia on the eve of war. The world is descending into obscurantism.
and violence. In the forest, the defrocked monk Arseny gathers an army of rabid believers.
Cossacks wearing homemade medals dream of invading the West. Thermal power plant workers are on the move.
burn the local drug lord. And then a new rumor starts to disturb the area: that
The boy is the messiah, the new Christ. But here's the problem: he seems to think of himself as
girl…
Against this backdrop, young informals are desperately fighting for freedom and life: rapper-
a loser, a punk girl and a down-and-out drug addict. Will they be able to survive, or
will the new world swallow them up?
The novel "Anarchists" was published in the spring of 2026 by Freedom Letters. Author
novel - former journalist of the publications "Batenka.ru" and "Kommersant" Mikhail Bokov. He
was born in the closed city of Arzamas-16 (Sarov), studied theology, lives in
Berlin. In 2025, Bokov's book of short stories, "Russian Gothic," was published by Eksmo.
Banned in Belarus and Russia. The official reason for the ban was insult.
feelings of believers, LGBT propaganda.