Biography Maya Plisetskaya


St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. In the photo: Maya Plisetskaya was applauded by the General Secretaries and the Presidents, the Queen and the Prime Ministers. Throughout her life, she was like a stretched string that sounded at the limit of her own capabilities, and left it on the eve of the flying: proud, royal, unusually bright. Childhood, youth, the Mayan family was born in the fall of the year in the Moscow family of Mikhail Plisetskiy and Rahil Messerer.

Later, she appeared brothers Alexander and Azariya. Rakhil Mikhailovna until the beginning of the thirties is known as an actress of silent cinema. Her sister Sulamif and brother Asaf were ballet dramatic artists. Mikhail Emmanuilovich worked in the commissariat of foreign affairs and foreign trade by the diplomat, was the head of the Soviet coal mines on the Svalbard archipelago.

Maya Plisetskaya with Maya's parents was about five years old when she first got to the theater. Remembering this, the ballerina said: ... When I was very small, I did not know who I wanted to become, even such a question did not stand. But I always liked the scene. And the first scene, the first performance that I saw was a dramatic performance. I really liked him. It was called "they do not joke with love." I had a aunt dramatic actress.

She was first at Zavadsky, then in the Ermolova Theater. I went to dramatic theaters with her, then to the ballet. But still I liked the drama more. But they gave me to the ballet, because she was dancing, she was in the artistic environment. Maya always danced. Once in the Barentsburg, at the Spitsbergen archipelago, where the diplomat family lived for some time, she, still a baby, entrusted the party of the mermaid, which she performed with brilliance.

When Mikhail Emmanuilovich was given a vacation in the year, Maya with her parents and brother came to Moscow and there she was identified at the Moscow Choreographic School in the class of Evgenia Dolinskaya. In childhood, Maya Plisetskaya had to be interrupted when the vacation was over, but then, already in the year, his father was transferred to work in Moscow, and Maya again came to classes at the former soloist Mariinsky Elizabeth Gerdt, who was engaged in subsequent years.

In, a few months before the birth of the youngest son, Mikhail Emmanuilovich was arrested, and then shot as an enemy of the people. Then the mother of Maya was arrested. The woman escaped the execution - she was sent to the camp with the breast insurance to Kazakhstan. Maya did not understand what was happening. She was adopted by her aunt, and his brother accepted Uncle Asaf into his family.

Maya Plisetskaya and her aunt Sulamif at fourteen finally gave her permission to go to her mother to Chimkent. Rakhil Mikhailovna organized a dance class there, and earned a living. In one of the concerts that took place in the city, her daughter also participated, who then performed the batch of a dying swan for the first time. Maya Plisetskaya with her mother and brothers in the year Maya's mother was released, and the whole family reunited in Moscow.

And three months later, the Great Patriotic War began, the Messerer family was evacuated to Sverdlovsk. Plisetskaya returned to Moscow and graduated from the creative path in the year. The final exam passed as the Lord of the Driad in the ballet "Don Quixote" and earned a well -deserved "excellent". The invitation to the Bolshoi Theater’s corps de ballet did not force himself to wait.

Maya showed herself in the ballet of Chopenian and soon received her first solo role of Masha in the Nutcracker, and then the party of Juliet and the tsar-girl in the play “The Humpbacked Horse”. In the year, she performed solo at a concert, which took place in the Kremlin Palace in honor of the birthday of Joseph Stalin, after which she became an exit, despite the status of the daughter of the “enemy of the people”.

Maya Plisetskaya in the role of Odette e truth, having visited India in the year, Plisetskaya again became “not traveling”: she allowed herself free communication with foreigners, talked with the Prime Minister of India Javaharlal Nera. All her requests remained unanswered. Maya Plisetskaya on tour in India, It was a year, at the premiere - a full house, in the lodges - all the highest ranks of the state, including the highest person.

Maya Plisetskaya in his youth according to Plisetskaya, the choreographer and choreographer of the play, the audience arranged fluid ovation after each act and the last closure of the curtain, the success was stunning. In the spring of the year, with the highest permission, the ballerin was released on tour in the United States. The youth of Plisetskaya was associated with the Great Theater in the sixties Maya became the official prima of the Bolshoi Theater.

It was then that the Kubinsky choreographer Alberto Alonso did not put his innovative “Carmen-Suite” Rodion Shchedrin. The performance of the role of Carmen was designed precisely for Plisetskaya. Maya Plisetskaya in the image of Carmen Public, accustomed to seeing her beloved Maya as a classic ballerina, took new stage techniques very coolly, which Plisetskaya recalled later in her book: at the premiere, we tried!

Biography Maya Plisetskaya

They climbed out of the skin. But the Great Hall was colder than usual.Not only the Minister of Furtseva and her are bitter, but the kind of Moscow public waited for me to the second “Don Quixote”, cute variations on their usual topic. Thoughtless entertainment. And here everything is serious, new, strange. They applauded more out of politeness, out of respect, out of love for the previous one.

Where are the pirouettes? Where is Shen? Where is Fuete? Where are the tours in a circle? Where is the beauty-bundle of festive Chinese? I felt the hall, like a sinking flagship, plunged into bewilderment. In the year, the new choreographer Yuri Grigorovich came to Bolshoi, with whom Maya Mikhailovna immediately unfolded a protracted conflict. Grigorovich’s unpreparedness for experiments, his desire to see in the main parties, also affected his lover Natalya Immorter and a natural decrease in the quality of productions.

Maya Plisetskaya and Yuri Grigorovich in the year Plisetskaya was among 25 cultural figures who wrote an “open letter” against Stalin's rehabilitation. In the year, the ballerina again acted as a choreographer, putting the ballet “Anna Karenina” on the stage, and in the “Seagull”. Both ballets were created by Rodion Shchedrin, the husband of Plisetskaya. Maya Plisetskaya in the Ballet of the Seagull for a year and a half Prima-ballerina was a thin of the ballet of the Roman opera, for its production was awarded the VIA Condotty Award.

Then Maya worked in Spain, where she worked closely with the opera diva Montserrat Kabalier. Together they put the opera-ballet of Willis Jakomo Puccini. Montserrat sang a party of “dying swan”, and the ballerina for the first time danced to the sound of a human voice. Kamil Saint-Sans. Maya Plisetskaya in the year Plisetskaya for the last time reached the stage of the Bolshoi Theater as a troupe prima.

After the play “The Lady with the Dog”, Khudruk Yuri Grigorovich fired the ballerina, exchanging the seventh dozen, as well as her much younger colleagues Vladimir Vasiliev and Ekaterina Maksimova. She collaborated with the best choreographers, for example, Rolan Petit and Maurice Bezhar, performed the main part in the ballet “Crazy from Shay”. In the year, Plisetskaya founded the Maya international competition, the first of them took place on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater in St.

Petersburg. Bolero Maurice Ravel. Dozens of television tests were released with her participation, and on the big screen she created the images of Betsya in the “Anna Karenina” of the year, the Italian singer Desire Arto in the film “Tchaikovsky”, Marina Polozova in “Fantasy”, shot by Anatoly Efros based on the work of Ivan Turgenev, “Vysny Water”. Fans remembered their beloved ballerina in the form of a muse in the film by Jonas Waitkus "Zodiac".

In it, she performed the main party of the heavenly fairy. In the year, she put there a dance in the musical "Aida". In the mature years, the ballerina continued to teach young talents the life story of the ballerina in detail in the autobiography “I, Maya Plisetskaya”. The personal life of Maya Plisetskaya according to Plisetskaya’s admission, she was very amorous from her youth.

Her first great love was Vyacheslav Golubin, a partner in Swan Lake, but the romance of relations soon came to naught. Later, she began a stormy romance with the artist of the cordbale of Iranian origin Espenjar Kashani. Maya did not hide her feelings, regularly and openly coming on a chic limousine in a communal apartment on Shabolovka, where her chosen one lived. The relationship became so serious that Esfendyar was represented by the family of the ballerina as the groom.

But the wedding did not take place, since Maya cooled to her lover. A stately handsome man was 11 years younger. The ballerina invited Marisa to become her partner in Lake Swan, which ascended him to the rank of first performers. Then she helped him go to foreign tour, and soon the couple officially registered relations. Together they lived for only three months, after which they decided to part.

According to the ballerina - "they did not agree on the characters." She was seven years older, but Shchedrin fascinated so much that he soon made her an offer. In the year, the couple signed. Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin in his youth “He prolonged my creative life for at least twenty -five years,” Plisetskaya said about her husband. And the 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. Maya Plisetskaya with her husband and love of all life according to rumors, Maya and marriage allowed herself violent novels, so she was attributed to relations with the brother of US President John Kennedy Robert. Despite the absence of children, together with Shchedrin they lived for more than fifty years and created masterpieces that forever changed the world ballet.

Death and memory in the last years of his life did not go on stage.