Olga Aleksandrovna Spesivtseva Biography

Svesivtseva Olga Aleksandrovna Spesivtseva outstanding Russian prima-ballerina, one of the most mysterious and tragic figures of Russian ballet. It was called one of the best ballerinas of all time and put on a par with Anna Pavlova. Olga was born in the family of a provincial actor. At the age of 6, when her father died of tuberculosis, her mother was forced to give the girl with her brother and sister to educate the acting shelter.

Olga later entered the St. Petersburg Theater School, and after its completion was immediately enrolled in the imperial ballet troupe. She successfully debuted on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater at Raymond, but her truly talent opened a little later. Three years after the start of the ballet career, the young ballerina toured in the United States with the Russian Ballet Diaghilev.

Her partner was one of the leading participants in the troupe, Vaclav Nizhinsky, and the glory of the duet spread around the world. They say that Diaghilev liked to quote the great Italian dancer Enrico Chekketti: “An apple was born in the world, he was cut in two, one half became Anna Pavlova, the other - Olga Svesivtseva.” But he added: “For me, Spesivtseva is the side of the apple that is facing the sun.

She is thinner and cleaner than Pavlova. " Since the year, she is already a leading dancer, and s-Prima-ballerina of the Mariinsky Theater. In the year, Olga Svesivtseva for the first time danced her legendary batch of Giselle in the ballet of the same name. The execution of Svesivtseva became a model, and more than one generation of ballerinas was subsequently equal to her life.

She was immediately offered a contract to the Grand Opera, and a little later-the role of the leading invited ballerina of the Paris Opera. The audience at her performances went crazy with delight, and the ballerina plunged deeper into depression. Nothing could reconcile her with Paris. She did not speak French, and her unsettled life weeded her. Since the year, Spesivtseva worked with the troupe of Fokina in Buenos Aires, and in the year as part of the former troupe, Anna Pavlova toured Australia and.

At this time, her mother returned to Russia without waiting for her daughter. Tireless life undermined the mental health of the ballerina. In the year, she moved to New York, but the ailment progressed. In the year, the great ballerina was hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, where she spent more than 20 years. For the last 28 years of life, the former prima lived in a boarding house organized by the youngest daughter of Leo Tolstoy for lonely compatriots near New York.

There she died in the year at the age of 96.