Blue Violet on the Meadow Slowly Took to Wandering is a collection of family history centered around the journey of Abram and Lisa Flaming, from Communist Russia to America and the new life they found there. The Flamings left Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution, when the devastating fallout of the regime s takeover was in full swing. They and many of their friends and relatives left their farms and villages and made the harrowing journey through Turkey and ultimately to America. "