Natasha's dance : a cultural history of Russia
/ Orlando Figes
- New York : Metropolitan Books , 2002
- 728 p. : illus. ; 24 cm
1. European Russia -- 2. Children of 1812 -- 3. Moscow! Moscow! -- 4. The peasant marriage -- 5. In search of the Russian soul -- 6. Descendants of Genghiz Khan -- 7. Russia through the Soviet lens -- 8. Russia abroad.
Examines the culture of Russia, using the lives of writers, artists, and musicians to show how Russia has struggled to define its own soul in the twentieth century.