Yulia Yakovleva
See Юлия Яковлева
Yulia Yakovleva is a writer, a journalist and a ballet historian. She has written a series of children’s novels – known as “The Leningrad Tales” – that examine aspects of the Stalin era, including political repressions and World War 2.
Yulia Yakovleva was born during Khrushchev's time. She worked in St. Petersburg as a ballet columnist for the Kommersant newspaper and as an editor for the Architectural Digest magazine. In the 1990s-2000s, she was professionally associated with the Mariinsky Theater: an employee of the press service and the theater museum, an organizer of the ballet troupe's tour, and a lecturer.
Her theater reviews have been published in periodicals including Kommersant and Afisha. She wrote a play that was performed at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 2012 as part of a “Pussy Riot” event.
Yakovleva also writes in Norwegian.
Yulia Yakovleva is a writer, a journalist and a ballet historian. She has written a series of children’s novels – known as “The Leningrad Tales” – that examine aspects of the Stalin era, including political repressions and World War 2.
Yulia Yakovleva was born during Khrushchev's time. She worked in St. Petersburg as a ballet columnist for the Kommersant newspaper and as an editor for the Architectural Digest magazine. In the 1990s-2000s, she was professionally associated with the Mariinsky Theater: an employee of the press service and the theater museum, an organizer of the ballet troupe's tour, and a lecturer.
Her theater reviews have been published in periodicals including Kommersant and Afisha. She wrote a play that was performed at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 2012 as part of a “Pussy Riot” event.
Yakovleva also writes in Norwegian.
