by Mathilde Kschessinka (Author).
There have been wonderful books about dancing, and superbly evocative ones about old Russia: but here the two themes are fascinatingly wedded.
For these are the memoirs of the prima ballerina assoluta of the imperial Russian ballet, Mathilde Kschessinska (the Princess Romanovsky-Krassinsky), with whom, at her first appearance, the Tsarevitch Nicholas fell in love.