Year

Age

Events & Works

1905

Born Alissa Zinovievna Rosenbaum on February 2 in St. Petersburg, Russia, to Zinovy Zacharovich Rosenbaum ("Fronz") and Anna Borisovna Rosenbaum. Alissa is the oldest of three sisters, Natasha and Nora.

1914

9

Reads The Mysterious Valley by Maurice Champagne and falls in love with its hero, Cyrus. Decides to become a writer.

1917

12

Summer in Finland. Witnesses first shots of the Bolshevik revolution in St. Petersburg.

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