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Азбука балета
Эта книжка написана для детей, но ее могут читать и взрослые: все равно ведь в балете, как правило, не разбираются ни те ни другие. И оттого думают, что балет это очень скучно, трудно, непонятно и про лебедей. А балет на самом деле — ужасно занятная штука. По крайней мере, автор — Юлия Яковлева — пишет о балете уже лет десять и ни разу не раскаялась. В этой книге она рассказывает о том, как трудная, а местами даже и противная профессия умудряется выглядеть со стороны такой легкой и волшебной. В книге читатели найдут исторические сведения, театральные анекдоты, легенды и апокрифы.
216 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2023
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About the author
Yulia Yakovleva
23 books20 followersYulia Yakovleva is a writer based in Oslo, Norway, who writes in Norwegian and Russian. Her books have received several international awards.
She has written a series of children’s novels – known as “The Leningrad Tales” – that examine aspects of the Stalin era, including political repressions and World War 2. The first book, The Raven’s Children, which was published in 2016 and translated into English by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp in 2018, is set in 1938 and tells of a brother and sister whose parents are taken away during the night. Later “Leningrad Tales” books cover the blockade of Leningrad, World War 2 evacuation, and returning home.
Yakovleva’s series of three adult historical detective novels about Leningrad police investigator Vasily Zaitsev, a character with an interesting moral code, is set in the 1930s. Yakovleva’s Zaitsev books are suspenseful and filled with atmospheric and period-specific details including the smells, quarrels, and density of communal apartments, as well as elements such as art, missing jewels, thoroughbred horses, and the plight of the dekulakized.
Her ABCs of Love, a book for all ages, looks at love through classic Russian literature; a 2020 novel, Poets and Gentlemen, is a sort of manga (in the ranobe subgenre) involving a battle between literary “dream teams” from Russia (Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Chekhov) and Britain (Austin, Shelley, Radcliffe). Her first children book Halens historie written in Norwegian, received the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2014 in Opera Prima category.
Previously, she worked as a ballet critic at the Afisha magazine and wrote a number of books on the Russian ballet’s past and present.
Russian profile here Юлия Яковлева
She has written a series of children’s novels – known as “The Leningrad Tales” – that examine aspects of the Stalin era, including political repressions and World War 2. The first book, The Raven’s Children, which was published in 2016 and translated into English by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp in 2018, is set in 1938 and tells of a brother and sister whose parents are taken away during the night. Later “Leningrad Tales” books cover the blockade of Leningrad, World War 2 evacuation, and returning home.
Yakovleva’s series of three adult historical detective novels about Leningrad police investigator Vasily Zaitsev, a character with an interesting moral code, is set in the 1930s. Yakovleva’s Zaitsev books are suspenseful and filled with atmospheric and period-specific details including the smells, quarrels, and density of communal apartments, as well as elements such as art, missing jewels, thoroughbred horses, and the plight of the dekulakized.
Her ABCs of Love, a book for all ages, looks at love through classic Russian literature; a 2020 novel, Poets and Gentlemen, is a sort of manga (in the ranobe subgenre) involving a battle between literary “dream teams” from Russia (Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Chekhov) and Britain (Austin, Shelley, Radcliffe). Her first children book Halens historie written in Norwegian, received the Bologna Ragazzi Award 2014 in Opera Prima category.
Previously, she worked as a ballet critic at the Afisha magazine and wrote a number of books on the Russian ballet’s past and present.
Russian profile here Юлия Яковлева
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August 4, 2017
Читаю новую Яковлеву и, пользуясь случаем, молю: если у вас или у ваших знакомых завалялась вот эта ее первая балетная книга, пожалуйста-пожалуйста, отдайте/продайте ее мне! Я свою подарила ученице из Швейцарии, даже не подумав, что потом книга станет недоступной. :(
June 7, 2023
Мне, человеку абсолютно ничего не понимающему в балете, книга показалась очень интересной и забавной
Не могу сказать, что она дала мне всеобъемлющие знания, но кое-что я оттуда почерпнула
Не могу сказать, что она дала мне всеобъемлющие знания, но кое-что я оттуда почерпнула
November 30, 2022
The best book about ballet in Russian! 6 stars!
January 15, 2025
Хорошее введение в тему. Спасибо за такие милые рассказы про классические балеты. Шуточек, на мой вкус, было многовато 🙈
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