Matilda Kshesinskaya. Muse of the Last Romanovs

Matilda Kshesinskaya was an exceptionally talented ballerina, prima of the Imperial Theatre. Her life resembles an engrossing novel: if, in her youth, her meeting with Nicholas II hadn’t taken place, perhaps her fate would have unfolded differently. But that meeting happened… The book by the poet and writer Elena Litvinskaya tells what Matilda Kshesinskaya was like and how she lived her century-long life. The flat-printed edition is supplemented with quotes from contemporaries’ memoirs and from Kshesinskaya herself, as well as a large number of photographs.