She moved swiftly to Hollywood, where she learned English, worked in the RKO wardrobe department and as an extra, and wrote through the night on screenplays and novels. On arrival at Ellis Island, she changed into Ayn (after a name of some Finnish author, probably "Aino") Rand (a supposed abbreviation of her Russian surname). With money from the sale of jewelry of her mother, Alisa bought a ticket to New York. Alisa returned to the city, renamed Leningrad, to attend the university, but relatives already settled in America and in 1926 offered her the chance of joining them. When the Bolsheviks requisitioned the pharmacy that Fronz Rosenbaum, her father, owned, the family fled to the Crimea. Polemical novels, such as The Fountainhead (1943), of primarily known Russian-born American writer Ayn Rand, originally Alisa Rosenbaum, espouse the doctrines of objectivism and political libertarianism.Īlisa Rosenbaum entered into a prosperous Jewish family before Russian revolution. Similar to Rand's first published novel, We the Living, Red Pawn dramatizes the evils of dictatorship, specifically of Soviet Russia.In this adaptation we introduce one of the lesser known heroines of Ayn Rand's works to a new generation of readers and fans of graphic novels, and artistically dramatize both the horrors of collectivism and the timeless themes of individualism, heroism, and romantic love. Award-winning artist Dan Parsons has again teamed up with The Atlas Society's Jennifer Grossman for this adaptation of Red Pawn, an early screenplay written by Ayn Rand. Her grudging respect, and growing feelings for the Commandant add unanticipated complications to her masterful game. Joan struggles to fool "The Beast," while striving to compel her true husband to keep her secret and follow her plan. Little does Karayev know she's actually Joan Harding, an American citizen, who's infiltrated with a to free her husband, Michael Volkontzev.
The notorious Commandant Kareyev - aka "The Beast" - has requested the Soviet State send him a female companion, who presents herself as a former high-priced call girl.
A beautiful, mysterious woman becomes the first female to step foot on Strastnoy Island - formerly a sea-bound monastery, now home to one of the Soviet Union's most infamous prisons.
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