My Way with a Song. Memories of a Pop Star of the Early 20th Century, a Performer of Folk Songs
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My Way with a Song. Memories of a Pop Star of the Early 20th Century, a Performer of Folk Songs
9.99 €
Memories of a unique singer, nugget, performer of Russian folk songs Nadezhda Plevitskaya-Vinnikova, who managed to rise in the early twentieth century from village round dances to the capital stage, to become the favorite singer of Emperor Nicholas II and the prima donna of the St. Petersburg stage. Deafening success, admirers, dizzying novels - all this was in Plevitskaya's life, but she remained faithful to her native village and family circle forever. The revolution changed a lot - Nadezhda Plevitskaya with her husband, a white general Nikolai Skoblin, was in exile, but even there, thanks to her talent, she was waiting for great success, tours of European capitals, crowds of admirers - former, from the Russian Empire, and new ... Therefore, a real explosion for the Parisian society was the arrest of the famous singer for ... espionage in favor of the USSR. In her memoirs, published in exile, Nadezhda Plevitskaya told with humor and warmth of heart about her way to the big stage, her native home, mother, relatives, meetings with the Emperor and his family, the First World War, which was the beginning of all the troubles and losses... Only the singer's agent work remained outside the narrative.
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