Alexander and Galina next take the advice of a former employee and go into the soap business, but it's also a failure. However, it soon closes because there are few people with any money to spend on anything other than food. Her father is the former owner of a successful factory and he opens a textile store. Under the Communist Party, her college is free and she's granted a student ration card which entitles her to a small allotment of food, though it's not sufficient to support her entire family. Kira almost immediately announces that she plans to attend the Technological Institute to become an engineer. She is eighteen years old and is accompanied by her mother, Galina, her father Alexander, and her twenty-eight-year-old sister, Lydia. Kira Argounova arrives at Petrograd in 1922 on the "threshold of a box car" because there were not enough seats in the passenger cars.
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