La verdadera historia de Mathilde K
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Desde el París de los años setenta, a donde se vio forzada a emigrar tras la Revolución Rusa, Mathilde Kschessinska, prima ballerina de los Teatros Imperiales rusos, evoca su vida.
Adrienne Sharp se ponořila do světa baletu v sedmi letech a trénovala v prestižním Harkness Ballet v New Yorku. Magisterský titul získala s vyznamenáním na Katedře psaní na Univerzitě Johnse Hopkinse a byla jí udělena prestižní stipendium Henry Hoyns na Univerzitě Virginie. Je autorkou několika knih, včetně románu "Bílá labuť, černá labuť", který zkoumá složitosti umění a osobního života. Její díla jsou známá svým pronikavým pohledem na motivace umělců a vyprávěním plným emocí.


Desde el París de los años setenta, a donde se vio forzada a emigrar tras la Revolución Rusa, Mathilde Kschessinska, prima ballerina de los Teatros Imperiales rusos, evoca su vida.
One hundred years old, with a sharp memory for every jewel she owned and every conquest she made, Mathilde Kschessinska—prima ballerina assoluta of the long-vanished Russian Imperial Ballet—sits down to write her memoirs. And what a life it has been. The greatest dancer of the age, her scything technique caught the eye—and heart—of one Nikolai Romanov when she was only seventeen years old. When Nikolai ascended the throne as czar and was forced to give up his mistress, she turned her gaze on his cousins, the grand dukes; despite betraying each man with the other, her loyalty to Niki never wavered. As the last czar presided over a fatally crumbling empire, her devotion to the imperial family was tested in ways she could never have foreseen. In Adrienne Sharp’s richly imagined novel, we see the seething beginnings of revolution and the blind giddiness of a doomed court. Based on fact, <i>The True Memoirs of Little K </i>is historical fiction as it’s meant to be written: passionately eventful and alive with emotions that resonate today. It is a magnificent entertainment.