The Gift of Asaf and Maya

The artist and set designer Boris Messerer is the son of the brilliant ballet artist Asaf Messerer and the cousin of the great ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. His memories are the story of their creative lives and his own path as an artist, an intriguing tale of the quests, failures, and victories of two outstanding personalities. Despite everything, they were among the first to create the golden age of the new Russian ballet.