70×100/16, hard cover, 190 pp., ill., 2006
ISBN 5-86793-427-6

This book is written for children, but it can be enjoyed by adults too. For, as a rule, neither adults nor children know anything about ballet. That’s why many of them think that ballet is boring, complicated and all about swans. Actually, ballet is a wonderfully fascinating thing to be interested in. For instance, the author of this book, Yulia Yakovleva, has been writing about ballet for the past ten years, and hasn’t had a single moment of regret. In “The Alphabet of Ballet”, she talks about how difficult, and for most of us downright impossible, it is to dance with the grace and magic of a ballerina. This book is brimming with historical detail, legends, myths, jokes and anecdotes about ballet.

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