Natashas Dance

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From the award-winning author of The Whisperers" Orlando Figes " Natashas Dance: A Cultural History of Russia" is a dazzling history of Russias mighty culture. Orlando Figes enthralling richly evocative history has been heralded as a literary masterpiece on Russia the lives of those who have shaped its culture & the enduring spirit of a people. " Wonderfully rich.. .magnificent & compelling.. .a delight to read". (Antony Beevor). "A tour de force by the great storyteller of modern Russian historians... Figes mobilizes a cast of serf harems dynasties politburos libertines filmmakers novelists composers poets tsars & tyrants.. .superb flamboyant & masterful". (Simon Sebag-Montefiore " Financial Times"). " Awe-inspiring..." Natashas Dance" has all the qualities of an epic tragedy". (" Mail on Sunday"). " It is so much fun to read that I hesitate to write too much for fear of spoiling the pleasures & surprises of the book". (" Sunday Telegraph"). " Magnificent... Figes is at his exciting best". (" Guardian"). " Breathtaking... The title of this masterly history comes from War & Peace when the aristocratic heroine Natasha Rostova finds herself intuitively picking up the rhythm of a peasant dance... One of those books that at times makes you wonder how you have so far managed to do without it". (" Independent on Sunday"). " Thrilling dizzying...I would defy any reader not to be captivated". (" Literary Review"). Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College University of London. He is the author of " Peasant Russia" " Civil War" "A Peoples Tragedy" " Natashas Dance" " The Whisperers" & " Just Send Me Word". His books have been translated into over twenty languages."