Tatiana Riabouchinska

Tatiana Riabouchinska
Татьяна Михайловна Рябушинская
Tatiana Riabouchinska, circa 1938
Photographer: Maurice Seymour
Born
Tatiana Mikhailovna Riabouchinska (or Ryabushinskaya)

23 May 1917
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died24 August 2000(2000-08-24) (aged 83)
Los Angeles, U.S
Occupation(s)Ballerina, ballet instructor
Spouse
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(m. 1943; died 1972)​
ChildrenTanica Lichine
Tatiana Riabouchinska and Roman Jasinsky in Les Dieux mendiants (The Gods go a-begging), photograph by Max Dupain, ca. 1939.
Tatiana Riabouchinska darns a ballet slipper, circa 1940.

Tatiana Mikhailovna Riabouchinska (Russian: Татья́на Миха́йловна Рябуши́нская, 23 May 1917 – 24 August 2000) was a Russian American prima ballerina and teacher. Famous at age 14 as one of the three "Baby Ballerinas" of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the 1930s, she matured into an artist whom critics called "the most unusual dancer of her generation."[1]

  1. ^ Vicente García-Márques, "Riabouchinska, Tatiana," in International Dictionary of Ballet, edited by Martha Bremser (Detroit: St. James Press, 1990), vol. 2, pp. 1197–99. Includes a chronology of roles performed and an appraisal of her artistry.