Download e-book for kindle: GANNA Diva of Lotusland by Brian Adams

By Brian Adams

ISBN-10: 1514169576

ISBN-13: 9781514169575

Lotusland, the distinguished backyard created by means of Ganna Walska in Santa Barbara, California, represents the second one 1/2 the artistic lifetime of a girl, who was once, in her time a femme fatale, a lot married, yet with a steely ambition to turn into a well-known opera diva, although her expertise was once moderate. From Polish youngster within the early a part of the twentieth century, she grew to become a pre-revolutionary baroness in Russia, with 5 next husbands, together with American business royalty, Harold McCormick, head of overseas Harvester. Her existence embraces the various very important occasions of the 20 th century and the artists, tycoons and statesmen at heart level. She owned a well known Paris theater for nearly 50 years, incomes the Légion d'honneur and the Ordre nationwide des Arts et des Lettres for her contribution to French cultural existence. however it is Lotusland, her eclectic and idiosyncratic Californian backyard that has ensured her posterity.

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