Tanya Eby
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the woman who would become Indra Devi was born in Russia in 1899, yoga was virtually unknown outside of India. By the time of her death, in 2002, it was being practiced everywhere, from Brooklyn to Berlin to Ulaanbaatar.Born into the minor aristocracy (as Eugenia Peterson), Devi grew up in the midst of one of the most turbulent times in human history. Forced to flee the Russian Revolution as a teenager, she joined a famous Berlin cabaret troupe,...