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Roger Cunningham danced the Nutcracker on opening night, and his style and storytelling gestures were well suited to the role. In the beautifully staged snow scene, Larissa Ponamarenko was absolute perfection as the Snow Queen: the slenderness of her arms and legs captured the delicate, precise angles of a snowflake in midair, while her flawless technique and feather-light jumps evoked the quality of snow melting as it hits the ground. Victor Plotnikov, as the Snow King, was a worthy partner, strong both technically and artistically, while the choreography of the snowflakes created the impression of swirling, wind-blown snow...
Tsibliyev hasn't yet seen any medals or pay raises. Since his return, he's been to Germany twice, but a NASA-sponsored U.S. trip was postponed. "We've had a few things to sort out," he explains. Wife Larissa, meanwhile, has become a minor celebrity. Russian Mir watchers praise her dignity and "big-screen beauty." "She's kept strong," says a fellow cosmonaut's wife, "and kept the kids out of the public eye." Tsibliyev, a colonel, could still lose his stripes. But son Vasili Jr., 19, and daughter Victoria, 14, are not worried. "Papa's back," says Victoria...
...Larissa Tsibliyev sighed deeply. She knew her husband's dark moods and had learned to read the signs, like the way he would melodramatically groan and clutch at his heart when he was under stress. But in all the years of his service to the motherland, she had never seen him look so troubled...
...Larissa Tsibliyev knew better than to interrupt her husband, so it was hard for her to speak up when Gagarin, the couple's beloved terrier, keeled over from the oven fumes. Too, she held her peace when the water sprinkler finally kicked in, knowing that the fire department would eventually turn the system off when it came to fight the blaze Vasily had started in the trash bin under the window. Larissa felt it was her duty not to criticize at home when things were going so poorly at work...
...down with a misplaced warning shot. Later that evening the Chechen delegation walked out of the Russia-Chechnya peace conference in protest, an event the Tsibliyevs might have seen on the news had their television survived the deluge in their living room. But none of this mattered to Larissa Tsibliyev. As she slipped into unconsciousness, she was content simply to note that her husband was finally sipping...