The dacha and Sretenka Street
What I was like at five
Relatives
Spitzbergen
I study ballet
Back in school and father's arrest
My mother disappears
Chimkent
Concert for the Cheka
Tchaikovsky's ʾImpromptuʾ
The war
My first year at the Bolshoi Theater
The apartment on Shchepkinsky Passage
Mastering the ABCs of the theater
ʾRaymondaʾ
ʾSwan Lakeʾ
Youth festivals
My injuries, my healers
Who'll get whom!
Stalin's birthday
I dance in ʾDon Quixoteʾ
I dance in Golovanov's opera
Life on the road and the end of the Stalinist era
My trip to India
Persecution
How I didn't go to London
While the company was in London
How I dressed
What a person needs
Shchedrin
Life on Kutuzovsky Prospect
I go to America
Seventy-three days
How we were paid
Paris meetings
Work with Yakobson
Why I did not stay in the West
Marc Chagall draws me
November 20
How ʾCarmen Suiteʾ was born
Work with Roland Petit and Maurice Bjart
A lyrical digression
My ballets
My ballets (continued)
I want justice
Work in Italy
Work in Spain
Untitled
Years of wandering
Curfew.