Undoubtedly, Galina Ulanova is a star of the first magnitude in the world of choreography. Her dance brought the audience into a hypnotic state. Alexey Tolstoy called her "an ordinary goddess." Sergei Eisenstein wanted to shoot her in the role of the tsarina in the film "Ivan the Terrible". At the same time, the heyday of her gift is associated with the formation of a unique artistic phenomenon — Soviet ballet. Ulanova passed the norms for the "Voroshilov Shooter" badge and wrote sincere articles in Pravda about the coming victory of communism. She became the most titled ballerina: winner of four Stalin and Lenin Prizes, twice Hero of Socialist Labor.

How could she, without possessing outstanding external data, ascend to the ballet Olympus? How, unlike many other women, did she escape the obsessive patronage of high-ranking connoisseurs of beauty? These questions are answered by the book of Olga Kovalik, personally involved in the fate of her heroine, who came on stage as a genius, and descended from her as a legend.