The third and final volume of “Slava” has just been released. The series does not directly tell the story of the end of the USSR and the Yeltsin years, but how Russians found themselves facing a new situation. At the beginning, we discovered Slava and Lavrine, childhood friends, who get by with schemes. Slava the dreamer, Lavrine the smooth-talking horse dealer.
The vagaries of life, and their trafficking, will lead them to a lost mine, abandoned by the State, but that the remaining miners would like to keep alive. And then there is the beautiful Nina, for whom Slava’s heart will capsize.
In the cold and the snow, everyone tries to keep their heads above the snow as best they can, especially since they have to resist the oligarchs and the mafiosi, who have quickly understood how to enrich themselves now that the red flag has been lowered.
“Slava” is a very good script, but above all, it has great characters. The author has built them very well, giving each one their own dimension. There is also an atmosphere, which makes the more we advance in the story, the more we become attached to this series. All served by the drawing of Pierre-Henry Gomont, light, dynamic, making us think a little of that of Christophe Blain. In Russia, fatalism is cultivated as well as melancholy, so there is no point in expecting a happy ending for this trilogy. We leave it therefore marked by a double sadness.
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