About the book: 2019 / A ballerina in the past, and later a journalist and ballet critic, Julie Kavanagh wrote an excellent, comprehensive biography of Rudolf Nureyev based on a huge factual, archival and epistolary material. She truthfully and at the same time with a great sense of tact reflected the soul of a genius against the backdrop of the most complex turns of his life and the struggle for his unique place in art.