Life in Ballet. The Family Chronicles of Plisetskaya and Messerer

“Life in the ballet” is memoirs similar to the biblical saga about the legendary Plisetskoye-Messerer dynasty, the history of the artistic clan against the backdrop of revolutions, wars, arrests and theatrical premieres, written by the youngest of the clan, Azarium Mikhailovich Plisetskiy.
The reader passes before the eyes of the reader The golden age of the Russian and world ballet: the Great Galina Ulanova, the legendary creator of the Cuban ballet Alisi Alonso, the French choreographer Maurice Bezhar, the magnificent Mikhail Baryshnikov and, of course, the older sister of the author is the demonic and irresistibly beautiful Maya Plisetskaya. In a sense, the brother’s book was written in a polemic with his sister"s memoirs. Another version of the known events opens to us: in front of our eyes, the optics is changing, a new angle arises, the frame is enlarged. At the same time, Azaria Plisetskoy is enough to keep a distance, even in the most difficult life situations to maintain an impeccable endurance of a truly ballet gentleman