Dance of Ashes

Paris, 1932.
Every morning before dawn, ballerina Lidia Volkova ties her ribbons and steps onto the cold stage of the Paris Opera.
Her dance is her prayer — a fragile balance between love and duty, between the brilliance of the spotlight and the silence that follows.

Her sister Anna, once the company's brightest star, now hides behind discipline and regret.
But when a mysterious note surfaces — "The old ornaments remember everything" — the sisters are forced to face a buried past: a vanished dancer from 1897 and a diadem said to carry both genius and ruin.

As the echoes of old performances blend with the pulse of the present, Lidia finds herself dancing not only for the audience, but for the truth.
In a city still trembling after the Great War, art becomes rebellion, and beauty becomes a secret language of survival.

"Dance of Ashes" is a lyrical, atmospheric novel that captures the elegance and melancholy of 1930s Paris — a story about two sisters, the weight of memory, and the invisible ties between art and sacrifice.