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Virginia Johnson Virginia Johnson
Virginia Johnson 1950– Dancer and choreographer At a Glance… Joined Revolutionary Troupe Became Troupe’s Leading Ballerina Danced Around the World Sources Virginia Johnson is the Dance Theatre of Harlem’s emotive prima ballerina. She has been with this historic and major... Read more
Kirov Ballet Kirov Ballet
Kirov Ballet one of the two major ballet companies of Russia, the other being the Bolshoi Ballet . In 1991 it was officially renamed the St. Petersburg Maryinsky Ballet; however, on its frequent tours abroad it is still called the Kirov Ballet. Often regarded as the foremost European ballet... Read more
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Rudolf Nureyev Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Nureyev , 1938-93, Russian ballet dancer, b. near Irkutsk, Siberian USSR (now Russia). Nureyev studied in Ufa and Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), and in 1958 he became a soloist with the Kirov Ballet . In 1961 he defected from the Soviet Union while on tour in Paris. The leading classical... Read more
Vyatka Vyatka
Vyatka , river, c.850 mi (1,370 km) long, rising in the foothills of the central Urals, E European Russia, and flowing first N, then NW past the city of Kirov, and finally SE into the Kama River near Mamadysh. It is navigable below Kirov and is important for logging and fishing.... Read more
Sergei Mironovich Kirov Sergei Mironovich Kirov
Sergei Mironovich Kirov , 1888-1934, Russian Soviet leader. He fought in the civil war of 1918-20 and rose to power as one of Stalin's most trusted aides. A member of the Communist party Politburo from 1930, he was secretary of the party at Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) when he was assassinated,... Read more
Fredrika Bremer Fredrika Bremer
Bremer, Fredrika (1801–65), Swedish novelist, traveled extensively in the U.S. between 1849 and 1861 and wrote a book describing The Homes of the New World (1853). Her letters from the U.S. were published as America of the Fifties (1924).... Read more
Mikhail Baryshnikov Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov , 1948-, Russian-American dancer and choreographer, b. Riga, Latvia (then in the USSR). He studied in Riga and performed with the Kirov Ballet (1966-74). Although highly respected and extremely popular in the Soviet Union, he defected to the West in 1974, where he danced with... Read more
Kirov Kirov
Kirov kē´ref , formerly Vyatka , city (1989 pop. 440,000), capital of Kirov region, central European Russia, on the Vyatka River. It is a river port and an industrial center that produces machinery and metalwork, chemicals, wood products, and armaments. The 17th-century cathedral and... Read more

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