La Grande Histoire Du Ballet Russe: De L'art a La Choregraphie.

Publishing director Paul André.
Authors of the original text: G. Andreyevskaya and A. Smirina.
Translated from Russian by Alexandre Grouzdev and Valéry Jouravlev with the collaboration of Linda Courtial.

[Bournemouth, Moscow], Parkstone Press, La Grande Encyclopédie de Russie, 1998.
Folio, 207 pp., ill.

In original boards and pictorial dust jacket.
Near very good condition, lightly rubbed, small scratches to dj.

This is the French translation of the richly illustrated album ‘Russian Ballet and Its Stars’, originally published in 1998 by Russian-British publishing houses in both Russian and English (the English edition titled ‘The Great History of Russian Ballet: Its Art and Choreography’).
The book includes contributions from esteemed Russian ballet critics and offers a comprehensive overview of Russian ballet from its origins to the late 1990s. It features chapters on key figures such as Marius Petipa, explores the history of Russian Ballet abroad, and provides an index of significant Russian ballet personalities.