Alexandra Yakovlevna Brushtain (1884–1968) was born in Russia in the late 19th century; her childhood and youth took place before the 1917 Revolution. She saw how and why the revolutionary movement was born, and she sympathized with it wholeheartedly. Everything about this, even in her mature years, in the Country of the Soviets, she wrote in an autobiographical trilogy: “The Road Goes into the Distance…,” “At the Hour of Dawn,” and “Spring.”