Publisher: Samokat publishing house

Text: Ksenia Novokhatko

Illustrations: Evgenia Roysman, Olga Terekhova, Polya Plavinskaya

Layout and cover design: Polya Plavinkaya

It’s the first biography of Andrei Sakharov appropriate for all ages.The main character is a true modern-day hero.The graphic concept is strengthened by the voice of Andrei Sakharov himself as the book is based on his diaries. This is a story of the fight for human rights in a totalitarian state. 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.

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. 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.