Olga Preobrajenska
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Olga Iosifovna Preobrajenska was a Russian ballerina of the Russian Imperial Ballet and a ballet instructor.
Preobrajenskaya as the Tsar Maiden in Alexander Gorsky's revival of The Little Humpbacked Horse. St. Petersburg, 1912.
Preobrajenskaya in the title role of the ballet Raymonda, 1903. Preobrajenskaya was the first ballerina to perform the role after its originator, Pierina Legnani, retired in 1901.
Irina Baronova
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Irina Mikhailovna Baronova FRAD was a Russian ballerina and actress who was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s. She cr
Olga Preobrajenska
…with the large white émigré community in Paris. For the next several decades, she was one of the most prominent ballet teachers in Paris, instructing Irina Baronova, Tatiana Dokoudovska, Tamara Toumanova and Igor Youskevitch. She retired in 1960; she died two years later, aged 91. She was buried in the Russian…
Baronova, c. 1937