Undoubtedly, Galina Ulanova is a star of the first magnitude in world choreography. Her dance put the audience in a hypnotic state. Alexey Tolstoy called her “an ordinary goddess.” Sergei Eisenstein wanted to film her as the queen in the film “Ivan the Terrible.” Moreover, the flowering of her gift is associated with the formation of a unique artistic phenomenon - Soviet ballet. Ulanova passed the standards for the “Voroshilov Shooter” badge and wrote sincere articles in Pravda about the impending victory of communism. She became the most titled ballerina: a laureate of four Stalin and Lenin Prizes, twice a Hero of Socialist Labor. How could she, without having outstanding external data, ascend to the ballet Olympus? How, unlike many of her friends, did she escape the obsessive patronage of high-ranking connoisseurs of beauty? These questions are answered by the book by Olga Kovalik, who was personally involved in the fate of her heroine, who entered the stage as a genius, but who left her as a legend.

[Adapted for AlReader]