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

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Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
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Physical Description:xviii, 386 p. :; ill.
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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.