Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Notes on Transliteration, Dates, and Currency xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Prologue: Korsh’s Private Theater 4
7. 1. “Ma Petite Sappho” 20
8. 2. “I Spent Two Weeks in Some Sort of a Daze” 37
9. 3. “In Paris Things Don’t Happen So Quickly” 54
10. 4. “Don’t Forget the One Who Loves Only You” 63
11. 5. The Dream Princess 77
12. 6. Princess Baryatinskaya 95
13. 7. Reconciliation 113
14. 8. Sons of Israel 131
15. 9. The New Theater 151
16. 10. Marriage 177
17. 11. 1905 Revolution 188
18. 12. The Wandering Star 202
19. 13. English Debut 215
20. 14. “I Don’t Need a ‘Happy Life,’ I Need the Stage” 230
21. 15. “A Princess in Real Life, but in the Theater a Queen” 238
22. 16. Anna Karenina 249
23. 17. Divorce and Revolution 258
24. 18. “Out of the Bolsheviks’ Clutches” 271
25. Notes 281
26. Bibliography 303
27. Index 309