Alexandra Popoff is a former Moscow journalist and Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow. She is the author of several literary biographies, including the award-winning Vasily Grossman and the Soviet Century and Sophia Tolstoy: A Biography. She lives in Canada.
“A compelling portrait of a woman driven to succeed and impress the world with her creative energy and ideas.”—Joshua Rubenstein, author of Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life