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One of the legendary ballerinas of her generation, Maya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow in 1925. Both sides of her family were Jewish. Her father, Mikhail, an engineer and communist idealist was from Belorussia; her mother, Rakhil (1902–1993), was a film actress who belonged to a famous Russian-Jewish theatrical clan, the Messerers, which ...
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Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya is a Russian ballet dancer, frequently cited as the greatest ballerina of modern times. Maya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow into a prominent family of Jewish artists. She went to school in Spitzbergen, where her father worked as an engineer.
PLISETSKAYA, MAYA (1925– ), Russian ballerina born in Moscow to a Jewish family. Her father, an engineer, was declared an enemy of the people during Stalin's era of political purges and was executed in 1937. Her mother, Rachel, belonged to the famous ballet family of *Messerer.
Early life. Plisetskaya was born on 20 November 1925 in Moscow, [7] into a prominent family of Lithuanian Jewish descent, [8] most of whom were involved in the theater or film. Her mother, Rachel Messerer, was a silent-film actress.
Maya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow into a prominent Jewish family. She went to school in Spitsbergen, where her father worked as an engineer and mine director. In 1938, her father, Michael Plisetski was executed during the Stalinist purges, possibly because he had hired a friend who had been a secretary to Leon Trotsky.
May 3, 2015 · Russia mourns Jewish ballet rebel Maya Plisetskaya. Russia on Sunday mourned the death of Maya Plisetskaya, one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century who dazzled the world with...
May 2, 2015 · May 2, 2015. MOSCOW — Maya Plisetskaya, one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century and virtually the embodiment of the Bolshoi Theater for decades, died on Saturday in Munich. She was...
