Harukaze no Snegurochka

This manga tells us the story of Bielka, a disabled girl on a wheelchair, escorted by her one-eyed slender companion around the countryside of Russia in the period of the rise of the Bolshevikh party, which eventually leads to the country, adopting the Communist regime.

The manga is short and explores a part of the history, usually never portrayed in a manga, which makes this piece unique and very interesting if you do have some previous knowledge about this certain period and the Russian Communism in general. A minus is that there is no summary about this period or detailed explaination or exposition, so you might feel quite puzzled, as well as you'll unintentionally miss on some details.

The art is expressive, and fits well with the story. It's more mature and grounded than most of the mangas out there, but it certainly does it's job way, portraying one cold, bleak and chaotic canvas on which our characters to show ourselves.

They are not very well developed as personalities and aspirations. Their main role is to be onlookers, and to give us a perespective how insignificant the human life was at the time, and the strong opression of the regime upon every single character.

Harukaze no Snegurochka is a rare historical manga, which portrays even more rare period in the world history with very accurate historical details and portraying a couple of historical figures as a characters. Despite that, for a person, not interested in history or not really invested into exploring this time period, it would seem quite pointless endeavor to read this piece.