Galina. Life story
49.99 €
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Galina. Life story
49.99 €
In this book, the life story of the great singer and actress Galina Vishnevskaya is told firsthand. The book is a unique testimony of a difficult, amazing life. A girl who finished 7 grades of school, without a special musical education, becomes a major figure of the Bolshoi Theater, and then the world's opera stages. Galina Vishnevskaya's life story is a Cinderella tale, or a story of hard, difficult work on herself, overcoming herself and the difficulties of the world.
Bright, inimitable style of the book draws you in from the first pages. The extreme frankness and honesty of the author makes you empathize with every minute of grief or joy of the great singer. Childhood without parents, war, besieged Leningrad, hunger, hard, unfeminine, labor; then - recognition, fame, success, the love of a great musician, two daughters; then - exile from the homeland ... On the pages of the book come alive the culture and history of a great country, the great personalities who created this history. This book is a true portrait of the era. The book was written for foreigners to understand what it means to live in an ideology of lies. First published in the United States in 1984 in English, the book became a bestseller. It has been translated into all European languages. "Nicea" finalized and structured the text of the book and significantly supplemented it with appendices. Galina Pavlovna's family - daughters Olga and Elena Rostropovich and son-in-law Armen Popov - took part in the work on the new edition.
Bright, inimitable style of the book draws you in from the first pages. The extreme frankness and honesty of the author makes you empathize with every minute of grief or joy of the great singer. Childhood without parents, war, besieged Leningrad, hunger, hard, unfeminine, labor; then - recognition, fame, success, the love of a great musician, two daughters; then - exile from the homeland ... On the pages of the book come alive the culture and history of a great country, the great personalities who created this history. This book is a true portrait of the era. The book was written for foreigners to understand what it means to live in an ideology of lies. First published in the United States in 1984 in English, the book became a bestseller. It has been translated into all European languages. "Nicea" finalized and structured the text of the book and significantly supplemented it with appendices. Galina Pavlovna's family - daughters Olga and Elena Rostropovich and son-in-law Armen Popov - took part in the work on the new edition.
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