Irina Baronova

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mikhailovna and the family name is Baronova.

Irina Baronova
FRAD
Ирина Баронова
Baronova, c. 1937
Born
Irina Mikhailovna Baronova

13 March 1919
Petrograd, Soviet Russia
Died28 June 2008(2008-06-28) (aged 89)
Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia
OccupationBallerina
Spouses
German Sevastianov
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(divorced)​
Cecil Tennant
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(died 1967)​
Children3, including Victoria Tennant

Irina Mikhailovna Baronova FRAD (Russian: Ирина Михайловна Баронова; 13 March 1919 – 28 June 2008) was a Russian ballerina and actress who was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s.[1] She created roles in Léonide Massine's Le Beau Danube (1924), Jeux d'enfants (1932), and Les Présages (1933); and in Bronislava Nijinska's Les Cent Baisers (1935).

  1. ^ Kisselgoff, Anna (2 July 2008). "Irina Baronova, Ballet Star, Dies at 89". The New York Times. p. B7.