Soviet ballerina Tatyana Legat died in Moscow at the age of 88
Moscow. January 27th. INTERFAX.RU - The famous Soviet ballerina, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Tatyana Legat died at the age of 88 in a Moscow hospital on Thursday, her daughter Alena Solovyeva told Interfax.
According to her, death came suddenly. Legat spent several days in the hospital, before that she led an active lifestyle. In recent years, Legat worked as a teacher-repetiteur at the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg, but with the onset of the pandemic, her relatives moved her to Moscow.
Legat was born in 1934 in Leningrad and is a representative of a ballet dynasty. Her great-grandfather was a student of Marius Petipa - Gustav Legat, whose sons also became dancers and choreographers.
Legat entered the Leningrad Choreographic School in 1943, during the blockade. She completed her studies in 1953, immediately after graduation she was admitted to the Mariinsky Theater (then the Kirov Theatre), on the stage of which she danced until the end of the 1970s.
Among the works of Legat are more than four dozen parties, including Etruscan ("Spartacus"), Kitri ("Don Quixote"), Zarema and Maria ("The Fountain of Bakhchisarai"), Gamzatti ("La Bayadère"). Legat's partners were Natalia Dudinskaya and Rudolf Nureyev.
Later she worked as a teacher-tutor at the Musical Theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko in Moscow, since 1992 - teacher-repetiteur of the Boston Ballet in the USA.
In 2010 she returned to Russia and entered the service in the same capacity at the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg.
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