Pierina Legnani
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Pierina Legnani was an Italian ballerina considered one of the greatest ballerinas of all time.
Pierina Legnani photographed during her tour of London, 1891. Written on the photo is "Signorina Pierina Legnani, Première danseuse assoluta".
Legnani in the title role of Cinderella. St. Petersburg, 1893.
Legnani in the title of Cinderella. St. Petersburg, 1893.
Legnani as the Tsar Maiden in Petipa's revival of The Little Humpbacked Horse. St Petersburg, 1895.
Swan Lake
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Swan Lake is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failure, it is now one of the most popular ballets of all time.
Pierina Legnani
…Theatre until 1901. Under the direction of famous ballet choreographer Marius Petipa, Legnani originated numerous roles, including: Cinderella in 1893, Swan Lake in 1895, Raymonda in 1898, and La Camargo in 1901. She is widely reputed to be the first ballerina to perform 32 fouettés en tournant in the coda of…
Design by Frédéric de Haenen for the décor of act 2, Moscow 1877
![Adelina Juri [ru] as Odette and Mikhail Mordkin as Prince Siegfried in Aleksandr Gorsky's staging of the Petipa/Ivanov Swan Lake for the Bolshoi Theat](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/Swanlakemordkin.jpg/500px-Swanlakemordkin.jpg)
Adelina Juri [ru] as Odette and Mikhail Mordkin as Prince Siegfried in Aleksandr Gorsky's staging of the Petipa/Ivanov Swan Lake for the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 1901. A young Vera Karalli is seen kneeling.
Anna Sobeshchanskaya as Odette in Julius Reisinger's original production of Swan Lake, Moscow 1877
Pierina Legnani as Odette (1895)