Before you is the best biography of the greatest dancer of the twentieth century to date. The book about the life and work of Isadora Duncan, written by Yu. Andreeva in 2013, received several literary prizes and for a long time became the main topic of discussion among art experts. For this publication, the author significantly supplemented the history of the "priestess of dance," paying special attention to the young years of this woman. The brightest of the comets that visited the earth at the turn of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries, the founder of the modern dance, the most eccentric woman of her time. What made her so? How did she manage to survive the death of two children? How did she turn from a modest pupil of a ballet school into a hetera dancing barefoot in a Chicago casino? You will find the answers on the pages of the biography of Isadora Duncan, a woman who once said: "Only a genius can become worthy of my body!," And soon married Sergei Yesenin.