#BookedinTime #February #HailtheBail
I tried print and audio. A whole lot of telling going on and I‘m bored. I think I‘d be better off reading Mathilda Kschessinska‘s own Dancing in Petersburg.
@Cuilin @dabbe
#BookedinTime #February #HailtheBail
I tried print and audio. A whole lot of telling going on and I‘m bored. I think I‘d be better off reading Mathilda Kschessinska‘s own Dancing in Petersburg.
@Cuilin @dabbe
What if your #excalling was royalty? Mathilde Kschessinska and Tsar Nicholas II were lovers before Nicholas went on to marry Empress Alexandra. Mathilde, a professional ballerina, didn‘t hear from Nicholas until he had become discouraged by all the girl babies he was siring with Alix, at which time he came crawling back. The book is written from the perspective of Mathilde at age 100, as she looks back on her life. I read this ages ago. #aprella
For Litsy's Historical Fiction readers: Here we have the last days of the Romanov Empire + Ballet as "remembered" by the mistress of Nicholas II, a prima ballerina in the Russian Imperial Ballet.
#letsdance #septembowie