My Sergei: A Love Story
Thrown together as children by the Soviet regime and told to skate for the good of the state, Sergei Grinkov and Katia Gordeeva became the most celebrated pairs skaters in the world--falling madly in love, marrying, and having a beautiful baby daughter. But after winning two Olympic gold medals and four World Championships, Katia's world collapsed when Sergei suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of A deeply moving, heartfelt memoir of their remarkable lives, this is Katia's final love letter to her beloved Sergei. This edition will contain an epilogue written by Ekaterina Gordeeva. page photo insert. National ads/media.
From Publishers Weekly
In the former Soviet Union, the sports establishment, charged with producing winners for the greater glory of the empire, had almost unlimited power over the athletically gifted. Children as young as five or six were identified, sent to special schools and given rigorous training in the sports in which they were expected to excel. Two such youngsters were Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov, paired as skaters by their teachers when they were 11 and 14, respectively. Throughout their training and into the start of their competitive careers, each thought of the other only as an athletic partner, partly because the four-year difference in their ages meant they had few friends in common. But as time passed and their joint career led to international championships, they fell in love and married. Their success culminated in Olympic gold medals in and And then, suddenly, Grinkov died of a heart attack in at age The story of their love and their happiness together is deeply moving, and the final chapters are heartrending, while the many photos heighten the tale. First serial to People and Redbook; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates; author tour.
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Ekaterina Gordeeva
Ekaterina Gordeeva (Ekaterina Alexandrovna Gordeeva) was born on May 28th, and is currently 53 years old. Ekaterina Gordeeva was born in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union.
Ekaterina Gordeeva is a Russian figure skater and an author. She and her deceased husband were the & Olympic Champions, three-time European Champions, four-time World Champion, Russian Champions in pair skating, and Soviet Champion, and Goodwill Games Champion. She has continued performing solo even after the death of her husband. Ekaterina published My Sergei: A Love Storyin collaboration with E.M. Swift and published a second book A Letter for DariainMy Sergeiis Ekaterina’s narration of her own life, from her childhood to perfecting the art of figure skating in the USSR during the Cold War, her relationship with her late husband, and the birth of their beautiful daughter.
She also shares stories about winning the first Olympic gold medal at Sarajevo in and her tours across the world. Despite all these achievements, she expresses the fact that they could never afford an apartment for her family to move into. But after many complaints, Sergei finally got a better car.
The family reloc
Ekaterina Gordeeva
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Who Is Ekaterina Gordeeva?
Ekaterina Gordeeva is a Russian champion ice skater. In their 13 years of skating together, Gordeeva and Sergei Grinkov were first co-workers, became friends, then fell in love, married, became parents and won four world championships and two Olympic gold medals. In , at age 28, her partner and husband Grinkov died of a heart attack.
Early Life
Gordeeva was born in Moscow, Russia, on May 28, Her father, Alexander Alexeyevich Gordeev, a folk dancer for the Moiseev Dance Company, wanted Gordeeva to become a ballet dancer. Her mother, Elena Levovna, was a teletype operator for the Soviet newsagent Tass. Gordeeva's parents both worked hard and traveled so much that Gordeeva and her sister, Maria, often stayed with their grandparents. Gordeeva's grandmother read Grimm's fairytales to her, not knowing that's how Gordeeva would later describe her life — like a fairytale.
Gordeeva, in My Sergei, also commented that "I was the luckiest girl on earth, wanting for nothing." At four, too young to try out for ballet as her father had wanted, Gordeeva was invited by a trainer at the Central Red Army Skating Club in Moscow
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