Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo
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In the 1930s and '40s, the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo toured the United States and the world,...
Diaghilev
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This magnificent new biography of the extraordinary impresario of the arts and creator of the...
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
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On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director...
Dance of the Earth
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From backstage to centre stage and theatres of war, Dance of the Earth is a sweeping family saga. ...
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Rattigan's Nijinsky
Nicholas Wright and Terence Rattigan
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In a hotel room a once-lauded playwright meets Nijinsky's elderly widow, Romola, to fight over his...
Katherine Mansfield and Russia
Gerri Kimber, W. Todd martin and Galya Diment
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Katherine Mansfield's passion for Russian literature and culture is well documented in her letters...
Tatiana Leskova: A Ballerina at Large
Suzana Braga and Donald E. Scrimgeour
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Tatiana Leskova is one of last surviving pupils of dancers from the golden world of the Imperial...
The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
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In this novel based on the extraordinary life of the gay brother of Vladimir Nabokov, Paul Russell...