Plisetskaya
Americannoun
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Maya Plisetskaya, one of the greatest Russian stars, was one of these.
From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2017
Thankfully, 18th-century merchants and 19th-century men of letters are mere extras in Mr. Morrison’s backstage story; its central figures, like Plisetskaya, jump off its pages complex and alive.
From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2016
When the ballerina Maya Plisetskaya died in Germany, in May, official Moscow shifted into high ceremonial gear, but then Plisetskaya’s widower, the composer Rodion Shchedrin, released his and Plisetskaya’s joint will.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 21, 2015
Plisetskaya was born in Moscow in 1925, spending part of her childhood in a Russian mining colony run by her engineer father on the barren Norwegian Arctic island of Spitsbergen.
From Reuters • May 3, 2015
But Plisetskaya, whom Khrushchev once called the world’s best dancer, fought back.
From Washington Post
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