Sunday, August 28, 2016

Footsteps


Olga Vasiliyevna Lepeshinskaya (Kiev, September 28, 1916 – Moscow, December 20, 2008) was a Soviet ballerina. She was named a People’s Artist of the USSR in 1951. [Read more].

Olga Vasiliyevna Lepeshinskaya performing as Kitri in “Don Quixote” (1940). Photo: State Academic Bolshoi Theater Museum.

Olga Vasiliyevna Lepeshinskaya performing as Oksana in “Taras Bulba” (1941). Photo: State Academic Bolshoi Theater Museum.

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