The history of the balls of imperial Russia. An amusing trip

The book of the Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Oksana Yuryevna Zakharova opens the reader with a special, unprecedented and little studied world of the ballroom ceremonial ... The author, on the basis of historical sources, talks about the emergence and development of the Russian ball, the history of dance and costume, the symbolism of the gesture, and the design of ballroom halls. This study is largely applied. For the first time published figures of the cotillone, they allow you to reproduce this dance on modern balls. It is unique to published in the book of Axtrtion, in which the reader is given the opportunity for the first time together with the heroes of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Danilevsky, Zagoskin, Baratynsky, Bunin, Kuprin, etc. to visit the balls of the 18th - 20th centuries, to feel the poetic world of the balloon culture. You will find an exciting historical journey, immersion in an amazing interweaving of eras and fate, politics and culture