From Manhattan to Moscow, this personal story of love and espionage takes you on a mesmerizing journey through the turbulent years of the early twentieth century. In Russian Dance, Andree Aelion Brooks immerses the reader in the glittering art and theatre life of New York in the 1920s. Brooks renders this world so strikingly, in all its wealth and splendour, that Bluet Rabinoff’s decision to abandon her husband and daughter and run off to Stalinist Russia with her lover, Marc, appears all the more shocking by contrast. The music and theatre world of the 1920s will never come again, but it is vividly preserved in the pages of Russian Dance...