I, Maya Plisetskaya

Main Author: Pliseλtμskaλiμa, Maζiλiμa Mikhaζilovna, 1926-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Russian
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c2001.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10167890
Table of Contents:
  • The dacha and Sretenka Street
  • What I was like at five
  • Relatives
  • Spitzbergen
  • I study ballet
  • Back in school and father's arrest
  • My mother disappears
  • Chimkent
  • Concert for the Cheka
  • Tchaikovsky's ®Impromptu®
  • The war
  • My first year at the Bolshoi Theater
  • The apartment on Shchepkinsky Passage
  • Mastering the ABCs of the theater
  • ®Raymonda®
  • ®Swan Lake®
  • Youth festivals
  • My injuries, my healers
  • Who'll get whom!
  • Stalin's birthday
  • I dance in ®Don Quixote®
  • I dance in Golovanov's opera
  • Life on the road and the end of the Stalinist era
  • My trip to India
  • Persecution
  • How I didn't go to London
  • While the company was in London
  • How I dressed
  • What a person needs
  • Shchedrin
  • Life on Kutuzovsky Prospect
  • I go to America
  • Seventy-three days
  • How we were paid
  • Paris meetings
  • Work with Yakobson
  • Why I did not stay in the West
  • Marc Chagall draws me
  • November 20
  • How ®Carmen Suite® was born
  • Work with Roland Petit and Maurice Bjart
  • A lyrical digression
  • My ballets
  • My ballets (continued)
  • I want justice
  • Work in Italy
  • Work in Spain
  • Untitled
  • Years of wandering
  • Curfew.