The kitchen in the communal apartment of the Bolshoi Theatre, in which Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya lived in the post-war years, is presented at the exhibition-installation I, Maya Plisetskaya in the gallery on Solyanka Street in Moscow, Russia. This is one of the six period rooms on display associated with her. Photo: Sergey Pyatakov/Sputnik.
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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].
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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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