Dancer and the Devil
“God is on your side? Is he a conservative? The Devil is on my side, he’s a good communist.”—Joseph Stalin
In the wee hours of January 23, 1931, the world’s greatest ballerina lay dying. As her lungs filled with fluid, the exiled Russian, Anna Pavlova, gasped to doctors that she had been “poisoned” by food in Paris, but to no avail. To a watching world, she symbolized the glories of pre-Soviet Russ...
“God is on your side? Is he a conservative? The Devil is on my side, he’s a good communist.”—Joseph Stalin
In the wee hours of January 23, 1931, the world’s greatest ballerina lay dying. As her lungs filled with fluid, the exiled Russian, Anna Pavlova, gasped to doctors that she had been “poisoned” by food in Paris, but to no avail. To a watching world, she symbolized the glories of pre-Soviet Russ...
