truly great Ballet Russe ballerinas. She left
the newly formed Soviet Union together
with George Balanchine in 1924. Since then she has worked exclusively in the US and
Europe, carrying with her the grand manner
of the past.
in 1793. She studied in S:t Petersburg and Didelot found her extraordinarily talented.
While still a very young girl she had a stormy
and unhappy love affair with Louis Duport (right)
What she saw in him, one might indeed ask -
certainly not his looks. Nor did he care much
for her either. At the tender age of 17 she died -
supposedly from consumption - or was it a
broken heart...
