The History of Balls in Imperial Russia. An Engaging Journey

The book by Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Oksana Yuryevna Zakharova, opens to the reader a special, unseen, and little-studied world of ball ceremonies.
The author, based on historical sources, tells about the origin and development of the Russian ball, the history of dance and costume, the symbolism of gestures, and the decoration of ballrooms. This research is largely of a practical nature. The figures of the cotillion published for the first time allow for the reproduction of this dance at modern balls. The published in the book anthologized material is unique in its own way, as it offers the reader the opportunity to visit balls of the 18th-20th centuries alongside the characters of Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Danilevsky, Zagorsky, Baratynsky, Bunin, Kuprin, and others, and to feel the poetic world of ball culture. You are in for an exciting historical journey, immersing yourself in the amazing interplay of eras and fates, politics and culture.