Photography: Rudolf Nureev, Paris, 1961 by Richard Avedon Rudolf Nureev was born on a train near Irkutsk (Siberia, USSR) while his mother, Feride, was travelling to Vladivostok to her husband. The windows of the apartment, where Nureev spent his childhood and lived in extreme poverty, were facing the railroad. Watching trains, passing by, he was dreaming to get on those trains and go far far away. After Nureev scandalously and famously defected to the West at Le Bourget airport in 1961, - for the rest of his life, he never stayed for more than 2 months at one place. Constantly changing places of his destination: from one theater to another, from one country to another… having apartments all over the world and even his own private island.
