The level of my obsession for Ulyana Lopatkina's Legend of Love knows no bounds. Perhaps the Boy Scouts of America banned my kind for our obsession with obscure Soviet-era ballets that are never performed stateside. Ulyana Vyacheslavovna's portrayal of Queen Mekhmehneh Bahnu is dripping with palpable passion and forbidden love. The queen is in love with a local artist who loves her dying sister. The sinister queen's fierce intensity is a level of emotion that only than most insane of Russian women appear capable of possessing. Many love Yevgenia Obraztsova in the romantic role. It should be no surprise that I love the tortured bitch. She is truly and utterly fabulous.
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