Cumpara the vanishing futurist produse noi de calitate.
Pe yeo poti sa gasesti cel mai bun pret pentru the vanishing futurist produse noi
When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914, she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead, nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them.
Gerty, alone and vulnerable, must now discover where that ideal will ultimately lead.
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Nikita Slavkin's sudden disappearance inspires the Soviet cult of the
Vanishing Futurist, the scientist who sacrificed himself for the Communist ideal.
Yet the chaos and violence of the outside world cannot be withstood for ever.
They abolish private property and hand over everything, even their clothes, to the collective; they swear celibacy for the cause.
The middle classes - and their governesses - are fleeing the country, but she stays, throwing herself into an experiment in communal living led by Slavkin.
In the white-washed modernist rooms of the commune the members may be cold and hungry, but their overwhelming feeling is of exhilaration.
In 1917, revolution sweeps away the Moscow Gerty knew.
Yet as her intimacy with the charismatic inventor, Nikita Slavkin, deepens, she's inspired by his belief in a future free of bourgeois clutter, alight with creativity and sleek as a machine.
When twenty-two-year-old Gerty Freely travels to Russia to work as a governess in early 1914, she has no idea of the vast political upheavals ahead, nor how completely her fate will be shaped by them
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