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Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Moscow, November 20, 1925 – München, May 2, 2015) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress, who held Spanish and Lithuanian citizenship. She danced during the Soviet era at the same time as Galína Sergéyevna Ulánova, another famed Russian ballerina. In 1960 she ascended to Ulánova’s former title as prima ballerina assoluta of the Bolshoi Theatre. [Read more].

Plisetskaya as Odette in “Swan Lake”. Photo: gorod.tomsk.ru.

Plisetskaya dancing “The Dying Swan” during a Stars of the Bolshoi Ballet performance at Lincoln Center’s Metropolitan Opera House, in New York City, United States, on September 21, 1974. Photo: Linda Vartoogian/Getty Images.

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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.