Life That Sparkled like Lightning. The Secrets of Matilda Kshesinskaya

The proposed book is an exciting documentary novel about the fate of an extraordinary Russian ballerina, whose name became a symbol of the era of the brilliant Saint Petersburg. Matilda Kshesinskaya is not just the prima ballerina of the Mariinsky... Theatre, but also a woman whose life was filled with love passions, separations, intrigues, treachery, intertwined with great politics, great corruption, and the attention of intelligence agencies. From her first steps on the stage of the Imperial Theatre to dizzying romances with the heir to the throne and grand dukes, from triumphs and recognition to the tragic events of revolution and emigration - every twist of Matilda Kshesinskaya's fate was filled with passion and talent.