# Rudolf Nureyev

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- Authors: [Julie Kavanagh](https://www.bookquiver.com/julie-kavanagh)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-690-5
- Pages: 848
- Published: 2019-03-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Born on a train in Stalin's Russia, Rudolf Nureyev was ballet's first pop icon. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement - both on and off stage. Nureyev's achievements and conquests became legendary: he rose out of Tatar peasant poverty to become the Kirov's thrilling maverick star; slept with his beloved mentor's wife; defected to the West in 1961; sparked Rudimania across the globe; established the most rhapsodic partnership in dance history with the middle-aged Margot Fonteyn; reinvented male technique; gatecrashed modern dance; moulded new stars; and staged Russia's unknown ballet masterpieces in the West. He and his life were simply astonishing.