where did ayn rand live?
Saint Petersburg
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 The loss of this opportunity caused serious discord in the Balzac household , although Honoré was not turned away entirely . Instead , in April 1819 he was allowed to live in the French capital – as English critic George Saintsbury describes it – " in a garret furnished in the most Spartan fashion , with a starvation allowance and an old woman to look after him " , while the rest of the family moved to a house twenty miles [ 32 km ] outside Paris . 

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 After clashing with the leaders of the Araratian Republic and leaving Armenia , Shapinand settled in the city of Fresno , California . The basement of his house was converted into a hotel . His sword , the Mosin – Nagant rifle and his military uniform hung from the wall . This is also where he kept his horse , which he had brought to America on a steamship . Those weapons , that uniform , the grey papakhi , the black boots , and lion @-@ like steed – this was the personal wealth he had come to possess throughout his life . His business no longer had to do with weapons . Shapinand spent his free time making small wooden chairs in his hotel . Many people , refusing to buy the quality American armchairs , bought his simple ones , some for use , others as souvenirs . 

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 By this time she had decided her professional surname for writing would be Rand , possibly as a Cyrillic contraction of her birth surname , and she adopted the first name Ayn , either from a Finnish name Aino or from the Hebrew word עין ( ayin , meaning " eye " ) . 

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 Once the students had become settled , Raymond sought real @-@ world projects for them to work upon , to put his theories into practice . Projects included an assortment of houses and extensions in New Jersey , Connecticut and Long Island . 

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 Initially , Rand struggled in Hollywood and took odd jobs to pay her basic living expenses . A chance meeting with famed director Cecil B. DeMille led to a job as an extra in his film The King of Kings as well as subsequent work as a junior screenwriter . While working on The King of Kings , she met an aspiring young actor , Frank O 'Connor ; the two were married on April 15 , 1929 . She became a permanent US resident in July 1929 , and became an American citizen on March 3 , 1931 . Taking various jobs during the 1930s to support her writing , she worked for a time as the head of the costume department at RKO Studios . She made several attempts to bring her parents and sisters to the United States , but they were unable to acquire permission to emigrate . 
