"[This] is the true story of a young woman of ease and privilege, her growing up amidst the Swedish aristocracy during the 1890's, her marriage to the son of a Russian general and her long journey through the maelstrom of Russia during the Revolution, a journey through the chaos of a war-torn land that thousands were fleeing. Following her husband across a continent, she is at the Northern Front when it collapses, and is imprisoned and taken to Moscow under the most extraordinary conditions... This is more than the story of the Revolution; it is the story of a rare and determined love remembered...a vivid and intensely personal recollection of a woman's private confrontation with a madly public world, a journey of the heart and mind written with great sensitivity, character and insight"--from jacket flaps.