# Bloomsbury Ballerina

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- Book: [Bloomsbury Ballerina](https://www.bookquiver.com/judith-mackrell/bloomsbury-ballerina) ([Bloomsbury Ballerina.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/judith-mackrell/bloomsbury-ballerina.md))
- Authors: [Judith Mackrell](https://www.bookquiver.com/judith-mackrell)
- Publisher: w_n
- ISBN: 978-07-5382-578-5
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2009-04-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'Mackrell's enthralling biography restores Lydia Lopokova to her rightful position centre-stage' DAILY MAIL 'Superb ... Mackrell, with her insider's knowledge of ballet and theatre, lovingly recreates Lydia's many worlds' GAY & LESBIAN REVIEW 'A hugely entertaining and informative study of the Ballets Russes star' SPECTATOR Born in 1891 in St Petersburg, Lydia Lopokova lived a long and remarkable life. Her vivacious personality and the sheer force of her charm propelled her to the top of Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. Through a combination of luck, determination and talent, Lydia became a star in Paris, a vaudeville favourite in America, the toast of Britain and then married the world-renowned economist, and formerly homosexual, John Maynard Keynes. Lydia's story links ballet and the Bloomsbury group, war, revolution and the economic policies of the super-powers. She was an immensely captivating, eccentric and irreverent personality: a bolter, a true bohemian and, eventually, an utterly devoted wife.