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Bolshoi confidential : secrets of the Russian ballet from the rule of the tsars to today
- Title
- Bolshoi confidential : secrets of the Russian ballet from the rule of the tsars to today / Simon Morrison.
- Author
- Morrison, Simon Alexander, 1964-
- Publication
- New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- xxix, 507 pages,16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- A history of the Bolshoi Ballet from its dubious beginnings in 1776 to the present, exploring its political ties and importance under various Russian regimes and how it came to define both Russian culture and ballet itself.
- Subjects
- Ballet > Russia > History
- Ballet > Political aspects > Soviet Union > History
- Ballet companies > Soviet Union > History
- Ballet companies > Russia > History
- Bolʹshoĭ teatr SSSR > Balet > History
- PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / Classical & Ballet
- Ballet > Political aspects > Russia > History
- HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
- Ballet > Soviet Union > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-479) and index.
- Contents
- The swindling magician -- Napoleon and after -- Fleet as lightning: the career of Ekaterina Sankovskaya -- Imperialism -- After the Bolsheviks -- Censorship -- I, Maya Plisetskaya -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- *MGTB (Russian) 16-5584
- ISBN
- 9780871402967
- 0871402963
- OCLC
- 937452718
- Author
- Morrison, Simon Alexander, 1964- author.
- Title
- Bolshoi confidential : secrets of the Russian ballet from the rule of the tsars to today / Simon Morrison.
- Publisher
- New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-479) and index.
- Research Call Number
- *MGTB (Russian) 16-5584