Art by: Álex Rozados

Written by: Sergio Izquierdo

St Petersburg, 1 March 1881. The good fortune of Tsar Alexander II, who had already survived several assassination attempts, comes to an end. Two bombs thrown by the subversive group Narodnaya Volya beside the Catherine Canal take his life. The demons that tormented the writer Fyodor Dostoevsky return to fulfil their mission and unleash a storm intended to sweep everything away, which will also sweep away its own protagonists. Among them is Sergei Nechayev, a complex, explosive and unclassifiable character whose stormy relationship with the old anarchist Mikhail Bakunin will shape his future.

  This Graphic Novel is also the story of Andrei Zhelyabov, Vera Figner and Sofya Perovskaya, who led the assassination attempt against the Tsar on the spot and would become the first woman sentenced to death in the Russian Empire as a ‘state criminal’.

Key points:

• A Graphic Novel that reconstructs Russian anarchism through the figure of Nechayev and his tragic revolutionary trajectory

• Sergio Izquierdo Betete and Álex Rozados manage to strike the difficult balance between providing historical information and commentary on the one hand, and entertainment on the other

Technical info:

• Original title: Y Llegó la Tormenta

• Published by Reino de Cordelia (2024)

• 216 pages - colour - 170 x 220 mm

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