- 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
Spitzbergen
Spitzbergen
- Chapter:
- (p.17) Chapter Four Spitzbergen
- Source:
- I, Maya Plisetskaya
- Author(s):
Maya Plisetskaya
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
In this chapter, Maya Plisetskaya recalls how her father, who was working for Arktikugl (Arctic Coal), was appointed in 1932 by Otto Yulyevich Shmidt to be general consul to Spitzbergen in Norway and chief of the coal mines there. Her whole family embarked on a very long journey, with stops and awkward changes in various countries. They boarded a train which traveled to Berlin via Warsaw. Maya also encountered humanity's meaningless cruelty in Barentsburg, when she witnessed the death of a polar bear after being shot by a man.
Keywords: coal mines, Maya Plisetskaya, father, Otto Yulyevich Shmidt, Spitzbergen, Norway, Berlin, Warsaw, Barentsburg, polar bear
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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
