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A magical portrait of Russia's revolutionary artistic avant-garde - Mayakovsky, Voloshin, Blok, Malevich, Tatlin - through the life of Sonia Dymshitz-Tolstaya, an impassioned artist whose life reflected the social upheavals of her time.

Known familiarly as Sonia, Sofia Dymshitz-Tolstaya (1886 - 1963) was born into a wealthy Jewish merchant family in St. Petersburg. Inspired early on by the promise of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, she risked everything to make a better life for herself and others.

In 1907, she eloped with the young writer Alexei Nicolaevich Tolstoy (a distant relative of Leo) and was subsequently disowned by her family. Together, she and Tolstoy began a Bohemian, artistically adventurous life among what later became known as the Russian Avant-Garde.

By 1915 she had left Tolstoy and two years later met and became intimate with the Constructivist artist Vladimir Tatlin (architect of the

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