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"Zhizn v balete" — memuary, pohozhie na bibleyskuyu sagu o legendarnoy dinastii Plisetskih–Messerer; istoriya artisticheskogo klana na fone revolyutsiy, voyn, arestov i teatralnyh premer, napisannaya mladshim iz roda, Azariem Mihaylovichem Plisetskim.
Pered glazami chitatelya prohodit zolotoy vek russkogo i mirovogo baleta: velikaya Galina Ulanova, legendarnaya sozdatelnitsa kubinskogo baleta Alisiya Alonso, frantsuzskiy horeograf Moris Bezhar, velikolepnyy Mihail Baryshnikov i, konechno, starshaya sestra avtora — demonicheskaya i neotrazimo prekrasnaya Mayya Plisetskaya. V kakom-to smysle kniga brata napisana v polemike s memuarami sestry. Nam otkryvaetsya drugaya versiya izvestnyh sobytiy: na glazah slovno menyaetsya optika, voznikaet novyy rakurs, ukrupnyaetsya kadr. Pri etom Azariyu Plisetskomu hvataet takta derzhat distantsiyu, dazhe v samyh slozhnyh zhiznennyh situatsiyah sohranyat bezuprechnuyu vyderzhku istinno baletnogo kavalera.