Octobriana and the Russian Underground - 1st Children's Books Minimal text in French (some

Minimal text in French (some illustrations bear captions)

that veritable Kanchenjunga among cartoonists

originally published in 1964

Over the past 5 years

all by himself

Octobriana and the Russian Underground - 1st Children's Books Minimal text in French (someOctobriana by Peter Sadecky. Artwork by Czech artists, Bohumil Konecn and Zdenek Burian. From the back cover: Octobriana, a kind of Russian Barbarella, is the spirit of the October Revolution, but she is also the spirit of opposition to established orthodoxy. Created in Kiev in the 1960s by a group of which Peter Sadecky was a member, Octobriana became the heroine of an illegal magazine, secretly printed and circulated by hand in a number of