My Sergei: A Love Story
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (785 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1570425043 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 365 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Touching and revealing There are not very many books about athletes that can combine the reality of the sport with the emotion of the lives behind it. Skating is kind of a fairy-tale sport, and Katia Gordeeva, in addition to her beauty, conveys a fairy-tale like quality both on the ice, and in her memoirs of her young skating career, and the life she entwined with her partner, lover, and husband Sergei Grinkov. If you've seen Ekaterina skate, you can't help but see the glow and the emotion she conveys on the ice.Off the ice, the book gives the reader a marvelous look into the rigors of the lives of Soviet athletes, and . Beautiful account of true love - it makes you love Beautiful account of true love - it makes you love this skating pair even more. Such insight to the world of Russia.. A touching love story I read this book A touching love story Tsarina I read this book 4 times and reading it again. It's a beautiful story because it's true and because it's written by a person who lived through it. "My Sergei" captures your hearts like no other book. Read it and you will never want to put it down. Ekaterina and Sergei are a fairy tale couple the world will never forget!. times and reading it again. It's a beautiful story because it's true and because it's written by a person who lived through it. "My Sergei" captures your hearts like no other book. Read it and you will never want to put it down. Ekaterina and Sergei are a fairy tale couple the world will never forget!
And then, suddenly, Grinkov died of a heart attack in 1995 at age 28. . Throughout their training and into the start of their competitive careers, each thought of the other only as an athletic partner, partly because the four-year difference in their ages meant they had few friends in common. From Publishers Weekly In the former Soviet Union, the sports establishment, charged with producing winners for the greater glory of the empire, had almost unlimited power over the athletically gifted. First serial to People and Re
They had skated together for fourteen years and Sergei had been her protector. Somewhere along the way, between training and competing, the couple fell madly in love, discovering the kind of profound relationship few ever find. They were two mismatched kids teamed by the Soviet regime to perform for the good of the state. Partners in life as well as on the ice, they were rarely apart. Now in her own words, his wife, Katia, tells their remarkable story, in this loving tribute to the exceptional man she idolized, whom she calle