my-russia:Lubov Yegorova (1880 – 1972) was a Russian ballerina who danced with the Imperial Ba
my-russia:Lubov Yegorova (1880 – 1972) was a Russian ballerina who danced with the Imperial Ballet and the Ballets Russes. She studied ballet at the Imperial Theatre School in Saint Petersburg. After graduating in 1898, she started work as a coryphée in the Imperial Ballet at Maryinsky Theatre and became a ballerina in 1914. After the Revolution she left Russia. After retiring from the stage, she taught as head of the Ballet Russe school in Paris from 1923-1968, and founded the Ballets de la Jeunesse company in 1937.Having lost her fortune through mismanagement, she died in a nursing home in Paris in 1972. -- source link