Karsavina, the firebird of Russian ballets

Its name belongs to the legend of the Russian Ballets.

As Martine Planells brilliantly resuscitated Anna Pavlova last year (

The Incomparable

, Ed. Gremese), Lyane Guillaume devotes herself to Tamara Karsavina.

She even gave him the pen to recount the memories of a life that began in Tsarist Saint Petersburg and ended in Beaconsfield, in a retirement home in the suburbs of London in 1978. The old lady, beautiful odalisque that age has transformed into a plump, one-eyed witch, walks through its history.

Alas, the author shares his knowledge, more than the old ballerina lives in his memories, which sometimes gives the impression of a somewhat pedantic display.

But we gladly forgive him as the period is dazzling.

And so much the author, lavish of his erudition, knew how to find tasty episodes.

Born in Saint Petersburg in 1885, sharing the adventure of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, going through the Bolshevik revolution, the Roaring Twenties, taking the boat

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