I was in The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division research room looking through a box of photographs when I found it, a postcard of my mother, Irina Baronova, and Paul Petroff in Aurora's Wedding. I looked at the picture then turned the postcard over. My heart thumped: the postcard had been written and mailed in London in the summer of 1936. The handwriting was my stepfather,…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 06:49PM on May 4, 2016