Geoffrey Elliott"s grandparents fled pre-revolutionary Russia for London, where they joined the tobacco trade and started a family. Homesick, they returned to Siberia, amidst the turmoil of revolution in 1917. Told with great affection, the author"s memoir of his family is a tale of home, exile, and hope for change, and an epic evocation of life in a time of intense historical upheaval. Geoffrey Elliott is the author of I Spy and Secret Classrooms: An Untold Story of the Cold War. He lives in Bermuda.