The History of Balls in Imperial Russia. An Exciting Journey

This book by Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Oksana Yurievna Zakharova, opens up to the reader a special, unseen, and little-studied world of ball ceremonies… The author, based on historical sources, tells the story of the emergence and development of the Russian ball, the history of dance and costume, the symbolism of gesture, and the decoration of ballrooms. This research is largely practical in nature. The newly published cotillion figures allow for the reproduction of this dance at modern balls for the first time. The anthology published in the book is unique in its own way, as it gives readers the opportunity to join the characters of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Danilevsky, Zagorsky, Baratynsky, Bunin, Kuprin, and others at balls of the 18th to 20th centuries, and to feel the poetic world of ball culture. 

You are in for an exciting historical journey, immersing yourself in the amazing intertwining of eras and destinies, politics and culture.