Russian Winter

When nina revskaya puts her remarkable jewelry collection up for auction, the former bolshoi ballet star finds herself over-whelmed by memories of her homeland, and of the events, both glorious and heartbreaking, that changed her life half a century earlier. it was in russia that she discovered the magic of dance and fell in love, and where, faced with stalinist aggression, a terrible discovery incited a deadly act of betrayal and an ingenious escape to the west.