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The Confines of Eden​

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Masha dreams of becoming the first dancer of the famed Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. Haunted by the memory of her father’s cold-blooded murder, she is forced to face it when she moves in with her sick grandfather and meets her half-sisters. Her life is changed when her brother Sasha gets a spot in the Tsar's Life Guard and the family moves to St. Petersburg. Here, she joins Tsar Nicholas’ Imperial Ballet, abandoning her innocence and naiveté to rise up to the top. Here, Sasha falls in love with the Tsar's eldest daughter, while Masha is torn between two men.Then Masha’s past catches up with her, just as World War I unfolds and the Bolsheviks call for a revolution that will unsettle the whole country…

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