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I, Maya Plisetskaya / Maya Plisetskaya ; translated by Antonina W. Bouis ; foreword by Tim Scholl.

by Plise︠t︡ska︠i︡a, Maĭ︠i︡a Mikhaĭlovna, 1926-

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New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, c2001.

Plise︠t︡ska︠i︡a, Maĭ︠i︡a Mikhaĭlovna, 1926-

Ballerinas -- Soviet Union -- Biography.

0300088574 (alk. paper) :

xviii, 386 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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 ʾImpromptuʾ -- The war -- My first year at the Bolshoi Theater -- The apartment on Shchepkinsky Passage -- Mastering the ABCs of the theater -- ʾRaymondaʾ -- ʾSwan Lakeʾ -- Youth festivals -- My injuries, my healers -- Who'll get whom! -- Stalin's birthday -- I dance in ʾDon Quixoteʾ -- 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 ʾCarmen Suiteʾ 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.

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