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1044568 - Yevgeny Tikhanov
Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya rehearsing, 1963.
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya ( born November 20, 1925) is a Russian ballet dancer, frequently cited as the greatest ballerina of modern times. She was born in Moscow into a prominent family of Jewish artists. She went to school in Spitzbergen, where her father worked as an engineer. In 1938, he was executed during the Stalinist purges, while her mother, a silent-film actress, was deported to Kazakhstan. Thereupon Maya was adopted by her maternal aunt, the ballerina Sulamith Messerer. Maya studied under the great ballerina of imperial school, Elizaveta Gerdt. She first performed at the Bolshoi Theatre when she had just turned 11 years of age. In 1943, she graduated from the choreographic school and joined the Bolshoi Ballet, where she would perform until 1990.
©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
©RIA Novosti / TopFoto
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