Description
Against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and World War I–era Europe, Zoya, a young cousin of the Tsar, flees St. Petersburg for Paris to find safety. With her world forever changed, she faces hard times and joins the Ballet Russe in Paris. When life is kind to her, Zoya moves on to a new, glittering life in New York. The days of ease are all too brief: the Depression strikes, and she loses everything yet again. It is her career, and the man she meets in the course of it, which ultimately save her, as she rebuilds her life through the war years and beyond. Her family comes to mean everything to her. From the Roaring Twenties to the 1980s, Zoya remains a rare and spirited woman whose legacy will live on.