- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
-
Chapter One The Dacha and Sretenka Street -
Chapter Two What I was Like at Five -
Chapter Three Relatives -
Chapter Four Spitzbergen -
Chapter Five I Study Ballet -
Chapter Six Back in School and Father's Arrest -
Chapter Seven My Mother Disappears -
Chapter Eight Chimkent -
Chapter Nine Concert for the Cheka -
Chapter Ten Tchaikovsky's Impromptu -
Chapter Eleven The War -
Chapter Twelve My First Year at the Bolshoi Theater -
Chapter Thirteen The Apartment on Shchepkinsky Passage -
Chapter Fourteen Mastering the ABCs of the Theater -
Chapter Fifteen Raymonda -
Chapter Sixteen Swan Lake -
Chapter Seventeen Youth Festivals -
Chapter Eighteen My Injuries, My Healers -
Chapter Nineteen Who'll Get Whom! -
Chapter Twenty Stalin's Birthday -
Chapter Twenty-One I Dance in Don Quixote, I Dance in Golovanov's Opera -
Chapter Twenty-Two Life on the Road and the End of the Stalinist Era -
Chapter Twenty-Three My Trip to India -
Chapter Twenty-Four Persecution -
Chapter Twenty-Five How I Didn't Go to London -
Chapter Twenty-Six While the Company Was in London -
Chapter Twenty-Seven How I Dressed -
Chapter Twenty-Eight What a Person Needs -
Chapter Twenty-Nine Shchedrin -
Chapter Thirty Life on Kutuzovsky Prospect -
Chapter Thirty-One I Go to America -
Chapter Thirty-Two Seventy-three Days -
Chapter Thirty-Three How We Were Paid -
Chapter Thirty-Four Paris Meetings -
Chapter Thirty-Five Work with Yakobson -
Chapter Thirty-Six Why I Did Not Stay in the West -
Chapter Thirty-Seven Marc Chagall Draws Me -
Chapter Thirty-Eight November 20 -
Chapter Thirty-Nine How Carmen Suite was Born -
Chapter Forty Work with Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart -
Chapter Forty-One A Lyrical Digression -
Chapter Forty-Two My Ballets -
Chapter Forty-Three My Ballets (Continued) -
Chapter Forty-Four I Want Justice -
Chapter Forty-Five Work in Italy -
Chapter Forty-Six Work in Spain -
Chapter Forty-Seven Untitled -
Chapter Forty-Eight Years of Wandering -
Chapter Forty-Nine Curfew
Tchaikovsky's Impromptu
Tchaikovsky's Impromptu
- Chapter:
- (p.48) Chapter Ten Tchaikovsky's Impromptu
- Source:
- I, Maya Plisetskaya
- Author(s):
Maya Plisetskaya
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
In this chapter, Maya Plisetskaya recounts her mother's release from Butyrki Prison in Chimkent in April 1941 and her return to Moscow with Maya's little brother. Meanwhile, Maya was preparing for her next performance as her mother began asking her about her ballet studies. The school was preparing for its graduation concert, which would be accompanied by the Bolshoi orchestra and held on the stage of its second theater, on June 21, 1941. Maya danced Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Impromptu in Leonid Veniaminovich Yakobson's staging to a rousing applause.
Keywords: ballet, Maya Plisetskaya, mother, Butyrki Prison, Chimkent, Moscow, concert, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Impromptu, Leonid Veniaminovich Yakobson
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
-
Chapter One The Dacha and Sretenka Street -
Chapter Two What I was Like at Five -
Chapter Three Relatives -
Chapter Four Spitzbergen -
Chapter Five I Study Ballet -
Chapter Six Back in School and Father's Arrest -
Chapter Seven My Mother Disappears -
Chapter Eight Chimkent -
Chapter Nine Concert for the Cheka -
Chapter Ten Tchaikovsky's Impromptu -
Chapter Eleven The War -
Chapter Twelve My First Year at the Bolshoi Theater -
Chapter Thirteen The Apartment on Shchepkinsky Passage -
Chapter Fourteen Mastering the ABCs of the Theater -
Chapter Fifteen Raymonda -
Chapter Sixteen Swan Lake -
Chapter Seventeen Youth Festivals -
Chapter Eighteen My Injuries, My Healers -
Chapter Nineteen Who'll Get Whom! -
Chapter Twenty Stalin's Birthday -
Chapter Twenty-One I Dance in Don Quixote, I Dance in Golovanov's Opera -
Chapter Twenty-Two Life on the Road and the End of the Stalinist Era -
Chapter Twenty-Three My Trip to India -
Chapter Twenty-Four Persecution -
Chapter Twenty-Five How I Didn't Go to London -
Chapter Twenty-Six While the Company Was in London -
Chapter Twenty-Seven How I Dressed -
Chapter Twenty-Eight What a Person Needs -
Chapter Twenty-Nine Shchedrin -
Chapter Thirty Life on Kutuzovsky Prospect -
Chapter Thirty-One I Go to America -
Chapter Thirty-Two Seventy-three Days -
Chapter Thirty-Three How We Were Paid -
Chapter Thirty-Four Paris Meetings -
Chapter Thirty-Five Work with Yakobson -
Chapter Thirty-Six Why I Did Not Stay in the West -
Chapter Thirty-Seven Marc Chagall Draws Me -
Chapter Thirty-Eight November 20 -
Chapter Thirty-Nine How Carmen Suite was Born -
Chapter Forty Work with Roland Petit and Maurice Béjart -
Chapter Forty-One A Lyrical Digression -
Chapter Forty-Two My Ballets -
Chapter Forty-Three My Ballets (Continued) -
Chapter Forty-Four I Want Justice -
Chapter Forty-Five Work in Italy -
Chapter Forty-Six Work in Spain -
Chapter Forty-Seven Untitled -
Chapter Forty-Eight Years of Wandering -
Chapter Forty-Nine Curfew
