A brilliant history of the iconic Russian Ballet - available for the first time in English ``For most of my life I lived Behind a curtain - not the magic one of theatre, but Stalin\'s Iron Curtain between the East and the West.
Petersburg), when as a boy, his parents would take him to the famed Mariinsky and Maly Theatres in their neighborhood to see.
However, it was full of holes.`` So writes Michael Meylac, whose love of ballet began in his youth in Leningrad (now St.
A brilliant history of the iconic Russian Ballet - available for the first time in English ``For most of my life I lived Behind a curtain - not the magic one of theatre, but Stalin\'s Iron Curtain between the East and the West