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Sharp, Adrienne.
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Kshesinska︠i︡a, Matilʹda Feliksovna, 1872-1971 -- Fiction.
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918 -- Fiction.
Romanov, House of -- Fiction.
Ballerinas -- Fiction.
Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917 -- Fiction.
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Sharp, Adrienne.
Kshesinska︠i︡a, Matilʹda Feliksovna, 1872-1971 -- Fiction.
Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918 -- Fiction.
Romanov, House of -- Fiction.
Ballerinas -- Fiction.
Russia -- History -- Nicholas II, 1894-1917 -- Fiction.
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The true memoirs of Little K / Adrienne Sharp.
by
Sharp, Adrienne.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2010.
Call #:
FICTION
SHA
Subjects
Kshesinska︠i︡a, Matilʹda Feliksovna, 1872-1971
--
Fiction
.
Nicholas
II
,
Emperor
of
Russia
,
1868-1918
--
Fiction
.
Romanov, House of
--
Fiction
.
Ballerinas
--
Fiction
.
Russia
--
History
--
Nicholas
II
, 1894-1917
--
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780374207304 (alk. paper)
0374207305 (alk. paper)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
378 p. 22 cm.
Summary:
"Exiled in Paris, tiny, one-hundred-year-old Mathilde Kschessinska sits down to write her memoirs before all that she believes to be true is forgotten. A lifetime ago, she was the vain, ambitious, impossibly charming prima ballerina assoluta of the tsar's Russian Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg. Now, as she looks back on her tumultuous life, she can still recall every slight she ever suffered, every conquest she ever made. Kschessinka's riveting storytelling soon thrusts us into a world lost to time: that great intersection of the Russian court and the Russian theater. Before the revolution, Kschessinska dominated that world as the greatest dancer of her age. At seventeen, her crisp, scything technique made her a star. So did her romance with the tsarevich
Nicholas
Romanov, soon to be
Nicholas
II
. It was customary for grand dukes and sons of tsars to draw their mistresses from the ranks of the ballet, but it was not customary for them to fall in love. The affair could not endure: when
Nicholas
ascended to the throne as tsar, he was forced to give up his mistress, and Kschessinska turned for consolation to his cousins, two grand dukes with whom she formed an infamous ménage à trois. But when Nicholas’s marriage to Alexandra wavered after she produced girl after girl, he came once again to visit his Little K. As the tsar’s empire--one that once made up a third of the world--began its fatal crumble, Kschessinka’s devotion to the imperial family would be tested in ways she could never have foreseen. In Adrienne Sharp's magnificently imagined novel, the last days of the three-hundred-year-old Romanov empire are relived."--Publisher.
Genre:
Biographical
fiction
.
Historical
fiction
.
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