这是列宁的秘密情人Inessa Armand的故事，首次公开给大众。
 
Inessa，一位美丽又充满激情的女人，是一位钢琴师。她也是一位革命者，为女权以及女性解放权奋斗。她精通俄罗斯语、英语、法语以及德语。她抛弃了她的丈夫以及五个孩子，只为了全心全力把自己奉献给俄罗斯革命。她去世后被埋葬在俄罗斯克里姆林宫。
 
虽然苏联政体一直想隐藏这段爱情，但是列宁疯狂的爱上了Inessa。他们在1909年在巴黎的一家咖啡馆相识。她是他的密友，帮他控制了政党，甚至帮助他进行危险的任务。她超越了她的时代，是历史上的独一无二人物。透过这本书，你可以看到列宁人性的一面。
 
好评： 
“An unexplored and surprising chapter of the October revolution saga. Love and politics are interwoven and confront each other, among passions and hypocrisies. Then there are Lenin’s tears: a discovery that Ritanna Armeni conveys with documentary precision and a passionate narrative”. Corriere della Sera
 
“An important story, passionate and painful. This book has shown me a new, extremely human side of Lenin, an unknown chapter in the history of the Bolsheviks.” Luciana Castellina, politician, journalist and writer
 
“A bourgeois woman and a besotted revolutionary. One century later, the Russian Revolution still has many great stories to be told. She is Inessa Armand, he is Lenin. A surprising portrait, free of judgments and politics, told from a great distance, with the calm voice of the Pushkin stories.” Lucia Annunziata, journalist and panellist for the Huffington Post
 
“Ritanna Armeni has reconstructed a story that is a novel on the complexity of existence” Il Foglio
 
“Armeni sifts through archives and brings back to life a courageous and modern woman with ability and rigor.” La Repubblica
 
"This story has the rhythm of a novel by Tolstoj with tighter writing, and which grabs your attention." Libero
 
关于作者：
Ritanna Armeni是一位记者以及作家。她目前为许多报刊杂志撰写文章。她出版过两本书:La colpa delle donne (The Women’s Sin，2006)以及 Parola di donna (Woman’s Word，2011)。