BOLSHOI CONFIDENTIAL

On a freezing night in January 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet. The crime, organized by a lead soloist, dragged one of Russia's most illustrious institutions into scandal. The Bolshoi Theater had been a crown jewel during the reign of the tsars and an emblem of Soviet power throughout the twentieth century. Under Putin in the twen ty-first century, it has been called on to preserve a priceless artistic legacy and mirror Russia's neo-imperial ambitions. The atta ck and it...[Read more]