Add this copy of Maya Plisetskaya to cart. $27.50, good condition, Sold by JWMah rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Seattle, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Progress Publishers.
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Good. No Dust Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" (RUS) 1st printing, 1976. No markings, about Very Good; no dust jacket as published. Hardcover, [176]pp, B&W photos of dancers and ballerinas. Thetext is in English. Plisetskaya studied ballet at The Bolshoi Ballet School from age nine, and she first performed at the Bolshoi Theatre when she was eleven. She studied ballet under the direction of Elizaveta Gerdt and also her aunt, Sulamith Messerer. Graduating in 1943 at the age of eighteen, she joined the Bolshoi Ballet company, quickly rising to become their leading soloist. In 1959, during the Thaw Time, she started to tour outside the country with the Bolshoi, then on her own. Her fame as a national ballerina was used to project the Soviet Union's achievements during the Cold War. Premier Nikita Khrushchev considered her to be "not only the best ballerina in the Soviet Union, but the best in the world" (1, 9 JM HOZ 403/b1.
Add this copy of Maya Plisetskaya to cart. $34.00, very good condition, Sold by Optical Insights rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Murrieta, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Progress Publishers.
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VG/NONE. Very good, laminated lifting at bottom rear spine area.; Photographs and text featuring the dance of this noted Russian ballerina of the Soviet era.; 10.20 X 7 X 0.60 inches.
Add this copy of Maya Plisetskaya to cart. $40.00, good condition, Sold by Robert Harper Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hyattsville, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Progress Publishers.
