Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev following their performance in the Royal Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet at the Metropolitan Opera in 1965 - Bettmann ...

34.5 x 24 cm. (13.6 x 9.4 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

Born on a train in Siberia in 1938, Nureyev grew up in poverty. Jamie Glover reads Julie Kavanagh's biography of the ballet star.

Margot was learning the second cast, you might say, and Nureyev was being his usual selfish, difficult self. He could be charming, and he could be humorous – and he could be a real sod.