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Maya Plisetskaya died
The great Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya died in Munich at the age of 89. This was reported by TASS with reference to the general director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin, who, in turn, learned about what happened from the wife of the deceased - composer Rodion Shchedrin.
The cause of death of the artist was a strong heart attack.
Plisetskaya was born on November 20, 1925 in Moscow in the family of a large official Mikhail Plisetskiy, who, in particular, headed the Arcticugol trust, and later was the USSR General Consul on Spitsbergen. In 1938, the father of the future ballerina was shot (rehabilitated in 1956), and his mother, actress Rachel Messerer, was sent to the Akmola camp of the wives of the traitors of the homeland in Kazakhstan. Plisetskaya adopted aunt - the ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater Sulamifi Messerer.
In 1943, Plisetskaya graduated from the Moscow Choreographic School and was also admitted to the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater. In 1960, after leaving Galina Ulanova, his prima-ballerina became. She also worked as a choreographer. In 1983-1984 he was the artistic director of the Roman Opera and Ballet Theater, in 1988-1990-the Spanish National Ballet in Madrid. At 65, she left the scene. In recent years, she constantly lived in Munich.
Among the most famous parties of Plisetskaya-Odette-Odillia in the "Lebedin Lake" and Aurora in the "sleeping beauty" Petra Tchaikovsky, Raymond in the ballet of Alexander Glazunov, the hostess of the Copper Mountain in the "Stone Flower" by Sergey Prokofiev, Mehmane-Ban in "Love Legend" Arifa Melikov, Carmen in the "Legend of Love Carmen-Suytin Shchedrin.
For more than 60 years, the ballerina received a lot of Soviet, Russian and foreign awards and honorary titles.
In 1966, Plisetskaya signed a letter from 25 figures of Soviet science and culture Leonid Brezhnev with a protest against the "partial or indirect rehabilitation" of Joseph Stalin and the silence of his crimes.
In 1991, when Lithuania provided citizenship to a number of famous foreigners, Plisetskaya and Shchedrin became the first Russians to receive passports of this country.