Two ladies from the U.S.S.R. were doing their bit for culture in London last week. For Lydia Gromyko, wife of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, it was horticulture, as she dutifully sniffed and stared at the wares in the late autumn show of the Royal Horticultural Society. For Ballerina Natalia Makarova, who defected a couple of months ago from Russia and the Kirov Ballet, it was the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake, danced for the cameras of the BBC with her fellow defector Rudolf Nureyev—a star at the Kirov when she was...
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