My Sergei: A Love Story
Thrown together as children by the Soviet regime and told to skate for the good of the state, Sergei Grinkov and Katia Gordeeva became the most celebrated pairs skaters in the world--falling madly in love, marrying, and having a beautiful baby daughter. But after winning two Olympic gold medals...
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Thrown together as children by the Soviet regime and told to skate for the good of the state, Sergei Grinkov and Katia Gordeeva became the most celebrated pairs skaters in the world--falling madly in love, marrying, and having a beautiful baby daughter. But after winning two Olympic gold medals and four World Championships, Katia's world collapsed when Sergei suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 28. A deeply moving, heartfelt memoir of their remarkable lives, this is Katia's final love letter to her beloved Sergei. This edition will contain an epilogue written by Ekaterina Gordeeva. 16-page photo insert. National ads/media.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780446605335 (0446605336)
ASIN: 446605336
Publish date: October 1st 1997
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Cultural,
Romance,
Russia,
Biography Memoir,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Figure Skating
I don't know about you, but I enjoy watching figure skating. A lot! And for me the best pair in figure skating EVER were Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergej Grinkov - they won everything there is to win at least once with such a grace and passion, it is just a pleasure to watch. Gordeeva wrote this book...
I LOVED this book. I felt like I was sitting in the room as she talked about her life with Sergei. And my heart ached for her.
I picked this up because I'm fascinated by figure skating, and thought it sounded really interesting. And it was in parts, but unfortunately Ekaterina Gordeeva is obviously not a writer, so certain sections of the book were rather clunky making the emotions difficult to relate to.Two things really e...
One of the most widely distributed and read skaters' biographies, this is, for a retiring young woman, remarkably frank. Nonetheless, perhaps one of the most interesting aspects is her discussion of her odd and it seems rather troubled friendship with choreographer Marina Zoueva. One gets the sens...
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