Books by Adrienne Sharp
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review 1: La ballerina dello Zar è un romanzo che racconta uno dei periodi che più amati della Russia. La Russia di Zar Nicola, quella che ha corso come un treno verso il suo fallimento e la sua caduta. La storia si dipana attraverso i racconti di Mathilde, eccellente ballerina di origine ...
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review 1: Interestingly, when I looked up Mathilde on Wikipedia, it turns out she was born 100 years to the day before me, so that made figuring out how old she was at each juncture easy :) and she lived to be nearly 100, may God grant me a similarly long life.A very solid, well written, i...
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review 1: Reading True memoirs of little K brought back memoirs of the wonderful Russian novels I love so much. Overloaded with much pomp and circumstance sharp, through Mathilde Kschessinka,a prima ballerina of the Russian Imperial ballet,recalls the grander lifestyle she shared with the ...