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Legendary ballerina Maya Plisetskaya has Died


In Germany, at the age of 89 years Russian ballerina Maya Plisetskaya has died, the general director of the Bolshoi Theater Vladimir Urin. According Urine, she called him her husband's Artist of the composer Rodion Shchedrin, with whom she lived for 57 years. 

The cause of death was a massive heart attack. The doctors did everything they could, but could not save the dancer, the story conveyed Shchedrin Urin. "A little over a week ago, we met with Maya Mikhailovna and discussed the anniversary evening dedicated to its 90th anniversary, which was held in November at the Bolshoi Theater. 


She was in perfect health, joking, but it so happened that the heart has stopped the great ballerina" Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his deep condolences to the family, friends and all fans of ballet dancers. Maya Plisetskaya was born November 20, 1925 in Moscow and maternal belonged to the famous Soviet ballet dynasty Messerers. 

Her uncle Asaf Messerer was a famous choreographer, USSR People's Artist, cousin Boris - an outstanding theater artist, brothers Alexander and Azarov also served as choreographers. His mother, Rachel Messerer-Plisetskaya, starred in silent films. The family suffered from the Stalinist terror. 

Maya's father, worked as director of the trust "Arcticugol" and then Consul General of the USSR in Svalbard, in 1938 was shot, his mother sent to the camp for "wives of traitors to the motherland" in Kazakhstan. Teenage girls took over the upbringing mother's sister, a ballerina of the Bolshoi Theater.

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