About the book: 2024 / Inessa Pleskachevskaya is a writer, journalist, screenwriter. He has been writing about ballet for over 30 years. During this time, 15 books by the author were published in Belarus, Russia, China and Lithuania. “Plisetskaya. An element called Maya” is a portrait of Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya against the background of an era, or rather, different eras, because she happened to live in several. It would seem that so much has been written, filmed, and told about Plisetskaya, but the author managed to make a number of discoveries. You will find out what passions, hopes and doubts raged in the soul of the great ballerina: her relationship with her husband Rodion Shchedrin, Yuri Grigorovich and Galina Ulanova. For this book, the author did exclusive interviews with Valentin Elizariev, Boris Akimov, Yuri Vladimirov, Mikhail Lavrovsky, Lyudmila Semenyaka, Natalia Kasatkina, Boris Messerer, Viktor Barykin, Valery Lagunov, Sergei Radchenko, as well as Rodion Shchedrin. The author discovered a lot of new things while working in the Bolshoi Theater Museum, the Russian State Library of Arts, and the archives of the Theater Museum. Bakhrushin, which contains Maya Mikhailovna’s notebooks. Her diaries, materials and publications about her are a snapshot of the time in which Plisetskaya lived and worked, and thanks to these invaluable documents we have the opportunity to see how not only the language of her interviews and articles written by her changed, but also her views. The publishing layout has been preserved..