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Bolshoi Confidential Secrets of the Russian
Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
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A Booklist Editors' Choice SelectionAn
enthralling, definitive new history of the
Bolshoi Ballet, where visionary performances
onstage compete with political machinations
backstage.Onnbspafreezing night
innbspJanarynbsp201, a hooded assailant hurled
acid in the face of the artistic director of the
Bolshoi Ballet. The crime, organized by a lead
soloist,nbspdragednbsponeof Russia8217smost
illustrious institutionsnbspint
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scandal. The Bolshoi Theater hadnbspbee
anbspcron jewel during thenbsprein of the tsars
andnbspanemblem of Soviet power throughout
thenbsptwetiethnbspcenury. Under Putin in the
twenty-first century, itnbsphasbeen called on to
preservenbspapriceless artistic legacy and
mirror Russia8217sneo-imperial
ambitions.nbspTheattack and its torrid
aftermath underscored the importance of the
Bolshoi to the art of ballet, to Russia, and to
the world.The acid attack resonated far beyond
the world of ballet, both into Russia8217spolit
ical infrastructure and, as renowned musicologist
Simon Morrison shows in his tour-de-force
account, the very core of the Bolshoi8217sunpara
lleled history. With exclusive access
tonbspstaenbsparcivesnbspandprivate
sources,nbspMorisonnbspsweps us through the
history ofnbspthestoried ballet, describing the
careers of those onstage as well as off, tracing
the political ties that bind the institution
tonbspthenbspvarying Russian regimes, and
detailing the birth of some of the best-loved
ballets in thenbspreprtoire.Fromnbspitsnbspdisre
putable beginnings in 1776 at the hand
ofnbspanbspFaustian charlatan,nbsptheBolshoi
became a point of pride for thenbsptsaist
empirenbspaftrnbspthedefeat of Napoleon in
1812. After the revolution,nbspMosow was
transformed from a merchant town to a global
capital, its theater becoming a key site of
power. Meetings of the Communist Party were
hosted at the Bolshoi, and the Soviet Union was
signednbspint existence on its stage.nbspDurng
the Soviet years, artists struggled with
corrosive censorship,nbspwhienbspbalet joined
chessnbsptounamentsnbspandnbspspace
exploration as points of national
pridenbspandCold War contest.nbspRecntly,nbspa
680 million restorationnbsphasrestorednbsptheB
olshoi to its former glory,nbspeve as prized
talent has departed.As Morrison reveals in lush
and insightful prose, the theater has been bombed,
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rigged with explosives, and reinforced with
cement. Its dancers have suffered
unimaginable physical torment to climb the ranks,
sometimes for so little money that they kept cows
at home whose milk they could sell for food. But
the Bolshoinbsphastranscended its own fraught
history, survivingnbsp250yearsnbspofartistic
and political upheaval tonbspdefnenbspnotonly
Russian culture but also ballet itself. In this
sweeping, definitive account, Morrison
demonstrates once and for all that, as Russia
goes, so goes the Bolshoi Ballet. 16 pages of
illustrations
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