Olga Wassiljewna Lepeschinskaja

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Lepeschinskaja, Alexander Radunski, I. Wassiljewa in Coppélia , 1957
Lepeshinskaya in October 2006 with the award of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland by Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin

Olga Lepeshinskaya ( Russian Ольга Васильевна Лепешинская * 15 . Jul / 28. September  1916 greg. In Kiev ; †  20th December 2008 in Moscow ) was a Russian prima ballerina .

Life

In 1933 Lepeschinskaja graduated from the Moscow Choreography School and began her career at the Bolshoi Theater . In 1941 she was among the first to receive the Stalin Prize for the role of Kitri in the ballet Don Quixote . During the Great Patriotic War , she made frequent appearances on the front lines. After the war she continued her work at the Bolshoi Theater. She appeared in Prokofiev's Cinderella and Glière's Red Poppy, among others. In 1951 she was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR award.

In 1963 she ended her career as a ballet dancer and from then on devoted herself to teaching. Among other things, she worked for ten years at the Komische Oper Berlin . For this work she was awarded the Gold Patriotic Order of Merit in the GDR in 1975 .

Since 1991 she has been head of the Russian Choreography Association.

Lepeschinskaya was married three times. Her first marriage to the film director Ilja Trauberg (1905–1948) was divorced shortly before the Second World War . Her second husband Leonid Raichman (1905–1990) was a general of the NKVD secret police until his arrest in 1951 . She was then married to Army General Alexei Antonov ; he died in 1962. All marriages were childless. Lepeschinskaja died on December 20, 2008 in Moscow.

Filmography

Web links

Commons : Olga Lepeshinskaya  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , February 27, 1975, p. 4.
  2. ↑ Крылова М. Стахановка из Большого театра. Чем запомнилась балерина Ольга Лепешинская ( Nezavisimaya Gazeta . September 29, 2006, accessed March 26, 2013).
personal data
SURNAME Lepeschinskaja, Olga Wassiljewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лепешинская, Ольга Васильевна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian prima ballerina
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2008
Place of death Moscow