The dancer and the dance.(ESSAY)(Rudolf Nureyev: The Life)(Book review)

From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide | Date: May 1, 2008| Author: Canning, Richard | Copyright information

Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

by Julie Kavanagh

Pantheon. 782 pages, $37.50

IN APRIL 1962, Rudolf Nureyev was convicted under Soviet article N43 of treason against the state. Traitor number 50,888 was not present to defend himself against the charges, which had resulted from his dramatic defection to the West at Le Bourget airport, Paris, the year before. The judge took evidence of Nureyev's previous good record into account, and he was sentenced to sev...

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