The Tsar's Service

Meet the second comic by the most productive Tula comic artist Alexei Khromogin, «The Last Man on Earth», «Author», «Fifty Years of Love» from his acute trilogy «Time of Troubles». A dark and thoughtful tragicomedy in the best traditions of... early 2000s Russian cinema and the autobiographical comics of Guy Delisle and Marjane Satrapi. As the author himself says: «The Tsar's Service — is a documentary about Russian limbo, a realm where time has long stopped. About Soviet ficuses and high-rise buildings, where they grow in people’s heads. It's about a portrait that hung in the director's office. About how to listen to the elders and look at the collapsed balconies. It's about my home».