Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today

An enthralling, definitive new history of the Bolshoi Ballet, where visionary performances onstage compete with political machinations backstage.Ona freezing night inJanuary2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet. The crime, organized by a lead soloist,draggedone of Russia’s most illustrious institutionsinto scandal. The Bolshoi Theater hadbeen acrown jewel during thereign of the tsars andan emblem of Soviet power throughout thetwentieth…