Tikhoretskaya - Plesetskaya train schedule. Maya Plisetskaya Maya Plisetskaya Bolshoi Theater
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About the train schedule Tikhoretskaya - Plesetskaya
Currently, the Tikhoretskaya Plesetskaya train schedule consists of 2 flights: direct trains - 0, passing trains - 2. These are flights 262С, 080С - the fastest of them is 262С Adler Arkhangelsk, which covers the distance along the Tikhoretskaya Plesetskaya route in 1 day 18 hours 30 min, the slowest train is 080С Adler Arkhangelsk, departing at 06:55. The number of stops on the Tikhoretskaya Plesetskaya route ranges from 27 to 36 depending on the train schedule and averages 31. Along the route, the train makes stops according to the schedule on average every 83 minutes. Trains depart from Tikhoretskaya station in the first half of the day - 02:57, 06:55. All trains leave from Tikhoretskaya stations and arrive at Plesetskaya stations.
Maya Plisetskaya bequeathed her ashes to be scattered over Russia. She lived a long and fulfilling life. Prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR and a world-famous ballerina, she became a symbol of her era, a standard and example to follow.Family and childhood of Maya Plisetskaya
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya was born in Moscow into a huge Jewish family. Six years later, her middle brother Alexander was born, who later became a choreographer, and six years later, her younger brother Azary, a future choreographer, was born.She had 11 uncles and aunts, and all of them were somehow connected with ballet and dance. For example, my mother’s uncle Asaf Messerer was a virtuoso dancer and an excellent teacher.
The mother of the future great ballerina Rakhil Mikhailovna Messerer (nee) was the star of the “Great Silent Cinema”. She attracted the attention of both spectators and directors. Due to her characteristic appearance: dark hair and oriental features, she often got the roles of Uzbek women. True, she had to give up her career as an actress because of her husband and children.
But Maya’s father, Mikhail Emmanuilovich, held economic and diplomatic positions. First he worked in the executive committee, then in the commissariats of foreign affairs and foreign trade. The father of the future star also took part in the production of films, where he met his future wife.
In 1932, he was appointed to manage the coal mines in Spitsbergen, and the whole family had to move. There he simultaneously held the position of Consul General of the USSR.
It was on the island of Spitsbergen that little Maya first appeared on stage. She played her first role in the opera “Rusalka” by Dargomyzhsky. From that moment on, the little girl could not sit still and began simply dreaming of the stage and performing in public. It was as if she was preparing herself for a brilliant future and constantly sang, danced, and improvised. The family decided to send the fidget to a choreographic school upon returning to Moscow. Seven-year-old Maya was sent to the class of former Bolshoi Theater soloist Evgenia Dolinskaya.
In May 1937, Maya’s father was taken away by security officers and a year after his arrest he was shot on suspicion of espionage. A few months later, his wife Rachel was also arrested. This happened right at the Bolshoi Theater, at a time when “The Sleeping Beauty” was on stage and the aunt of the future ballerina Shulamith was performing. Rachel Plisetskaya-Messerer received 8 years in prison as the wife of an enemy of the people. She, along with her newborn child (younger son Azariy), was placed in the Akmola camp for the wives of traitors to the Motherland. Only thanks to the efforts of her close relatives was she initially transferred to a free settlement in Chimkent. It was only in 1941 that her sentence was commuted and she was allowed to return to Moscow.
The middle son Alexander was sheltered by his uncle Asaf, and 12-year-old Maya was adopted by her aunt Shulamith. A kind relative took in her orphaned niece so that she would not be sent to an orphanage. True, as Maya Mikhailovna later admitted, the aunt did not just benefit her niece. She demanded that the girl be grateful to her and often humiliated her.
The beginning of the career of Maya Plisetskaya
Maya Plisetskaya’s first significant performance at the Bolshoi Theater took place on the eve of the fateful day for the Soviet Union. Less than a day before the start of the Great Patriotic War, the graduation concert of the choreographic school took place on the stage of the branch of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater.Maya Plisetskaya - “The Swan” (film-ballet 1975)
But the war made its own adjustments to the future fate of the prima. Since September 1941, Maya Plisetskaya’s family was evacuated to Sverdlovsk. Unfortunately, it was impossible to continue studying or practice ballet in the city.
To complete her studies, the 16-year-old girl decided to run away to Moscow, where classes at the Moscow Choreographic School continued even during the war. She was again enrolled, but this time - immediately into the graduating class in the course of Elizaveta Gerdt and Maria Leontyeva. In 1943, her training was completed, and Maya was immediately accepted into the staff of the Bolshoi Theater.
From the very first steps on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater, Maya's individuality, her expressiveness and dynamics of dance, and special passion were evident. Success was not long in coming. Plisetskaya received recognition in the ballet Chopiniana, where she performed a mazurka. Each jump of Maya caused incessant applause.
The girl loved to dance, but she didn’t want to work. Much later, she began to understand how interesting and creative the daily work of a ballerina can be. The path to the top of Plisetskaya’s career can still be compared to climbing a ladder: she climbed gradually to her main roles. For example, in the ballet “The Sleeping Beauty” she was first the fairy Lilac, then the fairy Violante, and then Aurora. In Don Quixote, the ballerina danced almost all the female roles and finally received the role of Kitri.
Maya Plisetskaya - Raymonda, 1959
In 1948, Maya danced Giselle in the ballet of the same name. And after Galina Ulanova left the theater for a well-deserved rest, Plisetskaya became a prima ballerina and received solo roles. Her unique dance style, flexibility, plasticity and graceful hand movements are recognized all over the world. She created her own unique style of ballet, which earned her worldwide fame.
True, not everything went smoothly in the ballerina’s career. She could not get along with the chief choreographer of the Bolshoi Theater, Yuri Grigorovich, and over the years this confrontation only intensified.
In 1956, the theater troupe went on a foreign tour to England for the first time, but Maya Plisetskaya did not receive permission to leave the country. They tried to accuse her of espionage and for the next five years she was banned from traveling abroad. But the ballerina successfully toured the country, winning the love of her compatriots. In 1959, Plisetskaya was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR.
Film career of Maya Plisetskaya
In 1952, Maya Plisetskaya first appeared in films. She can be seen in the film “The Big Concert” by Vera Stroeva. Well, then came roles in ballet films: “Swan Lake”, “The Tale of the Little Humpbacked Horse” and “Anna Karenina”. Prima Bolshoi was invited to the film-opera “Khovanshchina”. The ballerina also participated in the film adaptation of the ballets “Isadora”, “Bolero”, “The Seagull”, “The Lady with the Dog”. In 1974, she was invited together with the Bolshoi Theater soloist Bogatyrev for the television number “Nocturne” to the music of Friedrich Chopin from the ballet “In the Night” by choreographer Jerome Robbins.Maya Plisetskaya - Bolero
In 1968, the ballerina played Betsy in the film adaptation of the novel Anna Karenina by Zarkhi. Plisetskaya did an excellent job with the work, despite the difference in working on the theater stage and on the film set. In some films she even had roles with text. For example, in Bejart's ballets. Plisetskaya also starred in the role of Desiree in the film “Tchaikovsky” by Talankin. Then Vaitkus invited the dancer to play the role of Čiurlionis’s muse in the film “Zodiac”.
In 1976, the actress played a ballet star in the television film “Fantasy” based on Turgenev’s story “Spring Waters”. She succeeded brilliantly in the role of Polozova. Choreographic duets were staged by choreographer Elizariev.
After feature films, documentaries began to be made. The main role again went to Plisetskaya. Television people became interested in the fate of the artist, the development of her career, and various facets of her personal and creative life. The most striking documentaries about Maya Mikhailovna: “Maya Plisetskaya. Familiar and Unfamiliar" and "Maya Plisetskaya". In addition, the films “Maya” directed by Sakagushi for Japanese TV and “Maya Plisetskaya” directed by Deluche for the French are dedicated to her work. In the film “Maya Plisetskaya assoluta” he showed a ballerina in a dance and there were invariably “swan” hand movements that made Maya famous throughout the world.
However, Maya herself believes that you need to dance with your whole body. The legs, head, body and, naturally, arms should be involved. “It’s important to dance to the music, not to the music,” says the ballerina. The celebrity’s creative motto can be described as follows: don’t imitate anyone, turn your movements into music. By the way, Maya Plisetskaya’s dance never showed the sketches made by her predecessors. The ballerina always reacted to solo musical instruments and emphasized accents, sometimes by moving her eyebrows or looking at her. Maya Mikhailovna's dancing career turned out to be surprisingly long - she left the stage only at the age of 65.
Further career of Maya Plisetskaya
The ballerina not only performed on the theater stage, but also took on the role of director. At the Bolshoi Theater she acted as a choreographer for Rodion Shchedrin's performances “Anna Karenina” (1972, together with N. I. Ryzhenko and V. V. Smirnov-Golovanov), “The Seagull” (1980), “The Lady with the Dog” (1985 ). And she herself performed the main female parts in them.
The ballerina's dance style has become a generally accepted canon. An unexpected turn in the prima's fate occurred in 1983. She was offered to be the artistic director of the ballet of the Rome Opera and Ballet Theater. Maya held this post for a year and a half and periodically came to Rome. She staged "Raymonda" for the open stage at the Baths of Caracalla, presented her "Isadora" and organized "Phaedra".
In 1985, Plisetskaya was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. And from 1988 to 1990 she headed the Spanish National Ballet in Madrid. For the Spanish troupe, she revived the ballet “Vain Precaution” by Peter Hertel (choreographer - Alexander Gorsky) and introduced “Carmen Suite” to the repertoire. Here she began collaborating with Montserrat Caballe. At the latter’s suggestion, Plisetskaya performed in a production of Giacomo Puccini’s opera-ballet Vilisa. The ballerina also danced “The Dying Swan” to the accompaniment of the live voice of an opera singer.
In 1988, Maya Plisetskaya performed in the title role, staged especially for her by the artistic director of the flamenco troupe Jose Granero, in the ballet “Mary Stuart” by Emilio de Diego.
In January 1990, Plisetskaya danced her last performance at the Bolshoi Theater. It was “Lady with a Dog”. The ballerina had to leave the Bolshoi Theater due to disagreements with the artistic director, which had been going on since the very beginning of her career.
But the ballerina did not leave the stage, but continued to participate in concerts and give master classes. In the 1990s, Plisetskaya continued her collaboration with outstanding choreographers of the world: with the Marseille Ballet by Roland Petit and the 20th Century Ballet by Maurice Béjart. In 1992, at the Espace Pierre Cardin theater, Plisetskaya performed the main role in the premiere of the ballet “The Madwoman of Chaillot” to the music of Shchedrin. And she celebrated her 70th anniversary on stage, performing the number “Ave Maya,” staged for her by Maurice Bejart.
Despite her venerable age, the ballerina was active in public life. In 1994, she organized an international ballet competition called "Maya" and was the chairman of the jury for this competition. A year later she was elected honorary president of the Imperial Russian Ballet troupe.
Personal life of Maya Plisetskaya
As a star of the Bolshoi Theater, Maya was surrounded by many men. She wrote about her romances with ballet soloists Vyacheslav Golubin and Esfendyar Kashani. The ballerina was married twice.
Her first husband, Maris Liepa, was also a theater soloist and dancer. They married in 1956 but divorced three months later.
Maya met her second husband Rodion Shchedrin while visiting Lily Brik. The ballerina and the composer did not seem very interested in each other. Plisetskaya was seven years older than Shchedrin. Only three years after they met, they started dating and spent a vacation in Karelia. And in the fall of 1958 they got married.
“He extended my creative life by at least twenty-five years,” Plisetskaya said about her husband. And her husband supported her in everything and defended her interests before the Soviet government. It was thanks to his efforts that Prima got the opportunity to travel abroad.
True, despite a happy family life, the couple never had children. Shchedrin protested, but Maya never decided to give birth to a child and leave the stage. Her husband justified her, saying that ballet requires a wonderful physique, and after childbirth, the figure of any woman inevitably changes. Many ballerinas, he argued, lost their profession due to pregnancy.
The last years of Maya Plisetskaya's life
In 1993, Maya Plisetskaya became an honorary professor at Moscow State University.A year later she published an autobiographical book “I, Maya Plisetskaya.” The next book was published only in 2007 in the form of memoirs “Thirteen Years Later: Angry Notes in Thirteen Chapters.” Three years later she published the book “Reading Your Life...”.
And in 2000, as a result of a survey by the Public Opinion Foundation, she was chosen as Person of the Year in the field of science, culture and art. This is how popular love showed itself.
From the beginning of the 90s until the last days of her life, Prima and her husband lived in Munich. They were forced to stay there due to health problems. The doctors who helped Maya Mikhailovna stay in shape were found only in Germany. Also in 1993, the couple received Lithuanian citizenship.
Plisetskaya herself regretted that she rarely had to visit her homeland in recent years. She occasionally attended ballet competitions and appeared at the anniversaries of her colleagues.
Death of Maya Plisetskaya
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya died on May 2, 2015 in Munich at the age of 90 from a massive myocardial infarction. The farewell to the ballerina took place in Germany, and according to the will, Plisetskaya’s ashes will be united with the ashes of Rodion Shchedrin, after his death, and scattered over Russia.The death of Maya Plisetskaya was a loss for the whole world
Initially, on November 20, 2015, a creative evening was supposed to take place at the Bolshoi Theater on the occasion of the star’s anniversary, her 90th birthday. Now on this day an evening in memory of the great ballerina will be organized.
Maya Plisetskaya Awards
Maya Plisetskaya has a countless number of different awards. In 1959, she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR. She is also an Honored Artist and People's Artist of the RSFSR. In 1985 she was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.
The ballerina is a full holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (France), Commander of the Order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas, has the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Legion of Honor (France), the Lenin Prize, the Grand Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit Lithuania", Order of the Rising Sun, III degree (Japan), Order of Isabella the Catholic.
Maya Plisetskaya She was not only a brilliant ballerina who managed to conquer the whole world with her dance, but also a very ordinary woman with her own habits, hobbies, and little weaknesses. For the artist’s birthday, AiF.ru has collected little-known facts about Maya Mikhailovna, which reveal her from an unusual side.
1. Plisetskaya was a creative person, and therefore she chose an appropriate hobby for herself. She collected funny names. Having found “another masterpiece” in some printed publication, the ballerina cut it out and proudly added to her collection. Here are just a few of the pearls she found: Negodyaev, Potaskushkin, Damochkin-Vizzhachikh.
Bolshoi Theater tour in America. Maya Plisetskaya gets acquainted with newspaper reviews. 1962 Photo: RIA Novosti / Maya Plisetskaya
2. Maya Mikhailovna always dressed immaculately. Despite the fact that in Soviet times it was not easy to get a good thing, and the ballerina was not allowed abroad for a long time, her outfits never went unnoticed. At one of the official receptions himself Nikita Khrushchev reproachfully said to the ballerina: “You are dressed too beautifully. Do you live richly? Plisetskaya chose to remain silent - you can’t tell the leader that she buys all her dresses at exorbitant prices from the ordinary speculator Klara.
At a reception in the Moscow House of Actors in honor of the artists of the English drama troupe. From left to right: People's Artist of the USSR Sergei Obraztsov, People's Artist of the RSFSR Faina Ranevskaya, artist Paul Scofield, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Maya Plisetskaya Photo: RIA Novosti / Boris Ryabinin
3. The ballerina loved nourishing creams. She smeared them thickly on her face, and then sat in the kitchen and played solitaire. Often such gatherings lasted until late at night, because the artist suffered from insomnia all her life. Only sleeping pills helped her fall asleep.
People's Artist of the USSR Maya Plisetskaya prepares for the performance. 1969 Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexander Makarov
4. Maya Mikhailovna had friendly relations with Robert Kennedy. They met during Plisetskaya's second American tour. The politician did not hide his sympathy for the Russian ballerina and often congratulated her on her birthday, which, as fate would have it, was on the same day. The very first gift from him was a gold bracelet with two inlaid keychains. One depicted Scorpio, the common zodiac sign of Plisetskaya and Kennedy, and the other depicted St. Michael the Archangel.
People's Artists of the USSR Nikolai Fadeyechev and Maya Plisetskaya perform during the ballet tour of the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR in the USA. 1962 Photo: RIA Novosti / I. Koshani
5. Rodion Shchedrin and Maya Plisetskaya have been married for 57 years. Despite their strong sympathy for each other, at the very beginning of the relationship the couple was in no hurry to go to the registry office. The idea to sign came to the ballerina. Maya Mikhailovna believed that with a stamp in her passport she would have a better chance of going on tour abroad and the authorities would finally stop watching her. Moreover, the Minister of Culture herself Furtseva more than once hinted to the artist about the need to tie the knot.
Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin at home. 1971 Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexander Makarov
6. Before each class and performance, Maya Mikhailovna poured warm water into the heels of her ballet shoes to make her feet sit tighter. And when going on stage, she was most afraid of forgetting to look at herself in the mirror, because if her eyes and lips were poorly made up, then the audience would see a “colorless moth” and not a ballerina.
People's Artist of the USSR Maya Plisetskaya before the start of the performance. 1965 Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexander Makarov
7. Plisetskaya performed most of the tasks with her left hand. But at the same time, she was not one hundred percent left-handed - Maya Mikhailovna wrote that she was still right-handed.
People's Artist of the USSR Maya Plisetskaya gives an autograph during the intermission of the performance. 1965 Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexander Makarov
8. “In terms of maxi fur coats, I was Christopher Columbus in Moscow,” said Plisetskaya. In 1966, she brought a floor-length astrakhan black fur coat to the capital. The artist gave this item to her Nadia Leger. When the ballerina went out into the street wearing new clothes, the first woman she met crossed herself and called the ballerina a sinner.
Writer Louis Aragon, ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, writer Elsa Triolet and writer Konstantin Simonov at the Belorussky railway station. Photo: RIA Novosti / Lev Nosov
9. Maya Mikhailovna loved football and was an ardent CSKA fan. On the eve of her death, the ballerina and her husband also visited the stadium in Munich.
The Tikhoretskaya Plesetskaya train schedule currently contains 2 trains, the average travel time between these stations is 43 h 2 m, and the number of stops on this route is 35. Trains plying on the Tikhoretskaya Plesetskaya route most often stop at the stations Aleksandrov 1, Rostov-Yaroslavsky , Yaroslavl-Glavny, Sosyka-Rostovskaya, Pridacha, the schedule for which is also available on our website. Trains in this direction depart, for example, at 02.57, 06.55 from the Tikhoretskaya station, and arrive at the final destination Plesetskaya at 21.27, 02.30, respectively, local time. The small number of designated trains on the Tikhoretskaya Plesetskaya schedule is a sign that this route is not popular among passengers. The train schedule Tikhoretskaya - Plesetskaya is designed in such a way that you can travel in this direction at night or in the morning.
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Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya is a great Russian ballerina, winner of many awards, actress, choreographer, strong, bright and talented woman. Maya Plisetskaya was destined to belong to the world of art, since the bright talent of this outstanding star of Russian ballet was largely predetermined by genes.
Through the eyes of a womanThe girl was born on November 20, 1925 in Moscow in the family of actress Rachel Messerer and Mikhail Emmanuilovich Plisetsky. On the maternal side, there were several celebrities in Maya’s family: Aunt Shulamith Messerer and Uncle Asaf were ballet stars and enjoyed the special patronage of the leader. Aunt Elizabeth was an actress, and it was to her that little Maya owes her love for the theater. The mother of the future ballerina played in silent films, and her father had a more mundane profession, holding high economic positions in the government.
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In 1932, the family moved to Spitsbergen, where Mikhail Plisetsky was first director of Arktikugol and then consul of the USSR. In Spitsbergen, eleven-year-old Maya appeared on stage for the first time. She performed the role in the opera "Rusalka". Upon returning to the capital during vacation in 1934, Plisetskaya was enrolled in the Moscow Choreographic School. It would seem that everything was going as well as possible, and the teenage girl’s main dream was close to coming true. However, the terrible year of 1937 dashed all hopes.
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On May 1, Mikhail Emmanuilovich was arrested on suspicion of treason, and a year later he was shot without trial. Maya's father was rehabilitated posthumously, during the Khrushchev Thaw. A year after my father’s arrest, my mother was also taken away, right from the hall of the Bolshoi Theater, where a play was being performed by her sister, Sulamith. Rachel, along with Maya’s brother, Azariy, was exiled to Kazakhstan, and only in 1941 did she manage to return to Moscow. The Plisetskys’ other son, Alexander, was sheltered by his uncle Asaf, twelve-year-old Maya was adopted by Aunt Sulmif, otherwise the orphaned children were threatened with an orphanage.
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Largely thanks to the efforts of her aunt, Maya not only survived this terrible tragedy, but also found the strength to get back to the ballet barre, study and move on with her life. Young Plisetskaya’s extraordinary natural artistry, flexibility, expressiveness, and subtle sense of music and rhythm earned her the favor of her teachers. The day before the start of the war, a graduation concert took place, the first professional debut of the future prima ballerina.
First performances
Together with her mother and brothers, Maya went into evacuation to Sverdlovsk, where there was no opportunity to practice ballet. And yet, it was in Sverdlovsk that the girl first performed the part of the dying swan in the production of her aunt, Shulamith Messerer. They say that in order to achieve that stunning swan plasticity and grace, the ballerina spent hours watching the royal birds, trying to remember and copy their movements.
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In 1942, the orphaned Plisetsky family returned from evacuation to Moscow, and in 1943 Maya graduated with honors from the choreographic school. Like many graduates, Plisetskaya was accepted into the Bolshoi Theater corps de ballet, but this did not bother the young ballerina. She managed to demonstrate her talent to the general public, performing solo numbers at numerous concerts. Moscow saw her “Dying Swan” and was conquered.
Career at the Bolshoi Theater
The entire biography of Maya Plisetskaya is closely connected with ballet, as is her personal life: this woman simply could not imagine herself without the stage and art. Soon, the talented ballerina began to be trusted with central roles; she advanced to many of the leading roles gradually, from one female character to another.
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In the first season, Plisetskaya danced Masha in “The Nutcracker”, then Myrta in “Giselle”, she was the first fairy of Autumn in “Cinderella”, Kitri in “Don Quixote”. In Sleeping Beauty, Maya first played the role of fairies, gradually reaching Aurora. The audience especially remembered her Odette and Odile in Swan Lake. Soon Plisetskaya became the prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater, replacing the great.
Other, no less striking roles of the famous dancer were leading roles in ballets:
- "Legend of Love";
- "Carmen Suite";
- "Stone Flower";
- "Raymonda";
- "The Little Humpbacked Horse";
- "Romeo and Juliet";
- "Bakhchisarai Fountain" and others.
Knowing about the hard daily work of most dancers and exhausting ballet training, it is not difficult to believe that Maya Plisetskaya did not like these classes. By her own admission, she loved to dance, poured her soul not only into the plasticity and harmony of movements, but also lived the life of her heroines on stage. Perhaps it was talent and natural artistry that allowed the great ballerina, without bringing herself to the point of physical exhaustion with endless exercises, to stay in shape for so long, dancing until she was 65 and going on stage at 70.
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Maya Plisetskaya became famous not only as a magnificent dancer, but also as a talented choreographer and choreographer. She staged many performances on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater, playing the title roles in many. Unfortunately, at the end of the 80s, the ballerina was forced to leave the main ballet stage of the country. The reason was a conflict with management. In 1990, Yuri Grigorovich fired his prima along with Ekaterina Maksimova and Vladimir Vasiliev.
Ballets
As a choreographer, collaborating with other choreographers and directors, Maya Plisetskaya staged the ballets Anna Karenina, Raymonda, The Seagull, and The Lady with the Dog. The ballerina worked as the director of the Rome Opera and Ballet Theater, and after that of the Spanish National Ballet. She collaborated with Roland Petit and Maurice Bejart.
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The performances “Carmen Suite”, “The Death of the Rose”, “Prelude”, “The Madwoman of Chaillot”, “Isadora”, “Leda”, “Kurozuka” were staged especially for Maya Plisetskaya. For many productions, the music was written by composer Rodion Shchedrin, the ballerina’s husband.
Movies and books
Like any talented person, Maya Plisetskaya did not limit her creative activity to one type of art, although ballet was her life. She starred in many films, including dramatic roles, film adaptations of ballet productions, and individual performances.
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Several documentaries have been made about the life and fate of the ballerina, and she herself wrote and published a series of memoirs, where she described her life frankly and impartially.
In all the photos, the talented dancer looks strong, bright and daring. Despite her average height, she always seemed a little taller than others thanks to her excellent posture and proud carriage of her head. This is how she was in life; fate failed to break this woman, who even at 70 years old appeared on stage with the grace of a young girl. Age is no barrier to talent, and Maya proved this brilliantly. She has many awards and medals, titles and titles, including foreign ones.
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The famous ballerina has many interesting statements that have become catchphrases. So, in her memoirs, she mentioned Pierre Cardin as the best designer in her opinion, and when asked how she managed to maintain a beautiful figure, she answered with humor that she simply needed to eat less. And no brutal diets for you.
Personal life
Plisetskaya's first husband was a choreographer, however, this union lasted only three months. Maya met her second husband, composer Rodion Shchedrin, at an evening with Lily Brik, the fatal muse.
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They started dating three years later, and in 1958 they got married and lived together for more than half a century. The couple did not have children, since Maya deliberately refused motherhood, believing that it would put an end to her career as a ballerina. My love for ballet turned out to be stronger.
Death
The brilliant Maya lived a long life, leaving a rich creative heritage. Her talent and contribution to the history of Russian ballet are priceless. The date of death of the ballerina is May 2, 2015. in one of the leading Munich clinics, at the age of ninety. The official cause of death was a heart attack.
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A monument in Moscow is dedicated to Maya Plisetskaya, unveiled in November last year, on her birthday. There is also a memorial plaque installed on a house near the park named in her honor. There is also graffiti on which the ballerina is depicted as a dying swan. However, the grave of the brilliant Maya is neither in Moscow nor in Munich. The dancer bequeathed to scatter her ashes along with the ashes of her husband over Russia.
Filmography
- "Big Concert"
- "Anna Karenina";
- "Chaikovsky";
- "Zodiac";
- "Fantasy";
- "Swan Lake";
- "The Tale of the Little Humpbacked Horse";
- "Khovanshchina";
- "Bolero";
- "Isadora";
- "Gull";
- "Lady with a dog".