Maya Plisetskaya

The great ballerina of the 20th century communicated with the author of the book for twenty years. «I am who I am,» she loved to repeat. So who is she, Maya Plisetskaya? What do we not know about her? Who were the people around her? Who of them «made» her life and whose destinies did she influence? Why did the ballerina believe she lived in someone else's time? Did she have a rivalry with Galina Ulanova? What bouquet from Robert Kennedy did she keep all her life? And what efforts did it take her to become not just a symbol of Russian ballet, but to elevate it to an innovative, still unconquered peak?!

For the first time, the book publishes entries about Plisetskaya's childhood, which her aunt, actress Elizabeth Messerer, kept for many years. It features previously unpublished correspondence of Maya Mikhailovna with friends from her youth and the period of her artistic flourishing.