Imperial Dancer

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Imperial Dancer

Author	: Coryne Hall
File Size	: 45,8 Mb
Publisher	: The History Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 30 May 2012
ISBN	: 9780752488233
Pages	: 477 pages

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Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971) was the mistress of three Russian Grand Dukes and the greatest ballerina of her generation. She is in almost every book about the Romanovs, but so many myths surround her that she has become the stuff of legend. After her own memoirs, this title aims to reveal the real story by looking at what she did not say.

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