October 27, 2022

Imagine you are seventeen, have just completed the vigorous 10-year ballet program at the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatrical School and you find yourself at the graduation dinner seated across from Emperor Alexander III and next to his son Nicholas, heir to the Russian throne! Nicholas Romanov, future Emperor Nicholas II. Matilda Kshesinska, future prima ballerina […]

Once upon a time, in the small town of Marienburg in the Swedish Empire, there lived a girl who would have gladly traded places with Cinderella. A wicked stepmother? Mean sisters? An exceptional but not always reliable fairy godmother? Martha Skavronska could only dream of such bliss! Having lost both her parents when she was