Ain Rend - Nikiforova L.L., Kizilov M.B.

Perhaps Ayn Rand (Alice Rosenbaum) is the most popular English-language writer of Russian origin. She was born in the capital St. Petersburg, fled to Crimea from revolutionary Petrograd, wrote the first works in Soviet Leningrad, from where she emigrated to the United States, where she became a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, philosopher, cultural scientist. With its intellectual bestsellers, it influenced the formation of the ideology of the modern capitalist world. They are read out by American presidents and businessmen, they are part of the program of educational institutions in the United States. Allusions to her works can be found in modern music, books, youth subculture and even computer game, and her turbulent personal life became the plot of a acclaimed Hollywood film. She hated communism and believed that any country of the "free world" had the moral right to attack the USSR, created a philosophy of objectivism and proclaimed selfishness the main virtue of man. Having worldwide fame, it is almost unknown at home. Ayn Rand's biography, the story of a Jewish Cinderella from Russia who became the queen of American intellectual life, fills this gap.