Red Star White Nights: The Life and Death of Yuri Soloviev

by Joel Lobenthal and Lisa Whitaker

Red Star, White Nights: The Life and Death of Yuri Soloviev is a biography of one of history's greatest dancers, who ended his own life in a snow-bound Russian dacha in 1977 at the age of thirty-six. The book is also a personal memoir by Lisa Whitaker, who befriended Soloviev when he toured Australia in 1969. And it is autobiography, too, describing Whitaker's travels to Russia after Perestroika to find his family and uncover the mystery of his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1662905394
• ISBN13: 9781662905391
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Ballet Review Books
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"