Text by Ksenia Novokhatko, illustrated by Evgenia Roysman, Olga Terekhova, Polya Plavinskaya
Could you imagine that the European prize for freedom of thought may be named after a Soviet scientist? What’s more, this scientist created one of the first hydrogen bombs in the world. His name is Andrei Sakharov.
A shy boy, designer of the first Soviet hydrogen bomb, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, exiled human rights activist – this is one and the same person, Andrei Sakharov. His life deserves a blockbuster, intertwining big science and world politics, triumph and harassment, love and slander, fighting for the fate of humanity and justice for everyone. Since this movie or even a Netflix series had not been directed yet, historians, artists, writers, archivists, editors, and museum curators gathered to tell the story of this unique person through a graphic novel. Its layout and colour solutions highlight the complexity of the main character’s personality and fate as well as the historical background of the Soviet Union and also the whole world.
Andrei Sakharov dared to make his own choices, to go against the system and to speak openly for freedom again and again in the country which didn’t allow nonconformity.
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