1840-1893

Chronicles the troubled life of the nineteenth-century Russian composer. Includes sidebars about such topics as serfs, Leo Tolstoy, and the invention of the phonograph.

After her ballet class with Madame Rosa at the old theater, Ella Bella is transported into the fairy tale world of Sleeping Beauty.

Chronicles the life of nineteenth-century Russian composer Peter Tchaikovsky, who wrote "Swan Lake," "Sleeping Beauty," and "The Nutcracker.".

A biography of the nineteenth-century composer with emphasis on his childhood and early musical training.

Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.