Before you is the best biography of the greatest dancer of the twentieth century to date. A book about the life and work of Isadora Duncan, written by Yu. Andreeva in 2013, received several literary awards and for a long time became the main topic of discussion among art connoisseurs. For this publication, the author significantly expanded the history of the “priestess of dance”, paying special attention to the years of her youth. The brightest of the comets that visited the earth at the turn of the 19th - early 20th centuries, the founder of modern dance, the most eccentric woman of her time. What made her like this? How did she manage to survive the death of two children? How did she turn from a modest ballet school student into a hetaera dancing barefoot in a Chicago casino? You will find the answers on the pages of the biography of Isadora Duncan, a woman who once said: “Only a genius can become worthy of my body!” - and soon married Sergei Yesenin.