Lenin's Mistress
Subtitle: The Life of Inessa Armand
Publisher: Random House
Published: April 16, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780375505898
First sentence: It was before the early snows in October 1893, and already dark by mid-afternoon, when Inessa Stephane married Alexander Armand in the Church of St. Nikolai in the little town of Pushkino-and transformed a future that would take her eventually into the highest levels of power in Russia.