Maya Plisetskaya
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Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Russian: Ма́йя Миха́йловна Плисе́цкая; 20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015) was a Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress, who held in post-Soviet times Spanish and Lithuanian citizenship. She danced during the Soviet era at the Bolshoi Theatre under the directorships of Leonid Lavrovsky, then of Yury Grigorovich; later she moved into direct confrontation with him. In 1960 when Galina Ulanova, another famed Russian ballerina retired, Plisetskaya became prima ballerina assoluta of the company.

Her early years were marked by political repression. Her father Mikhail Plisetski who was a Soviet official, has been arrested in 1937 and executed in 1938, during the Great Purge. Her mother actress Rachel Messerer was arrested in 1938 and spent few years in prison, then in concentration camp together with her infant son Azari. Older children were faced the threat of an orphanage, Maya was adopted by her aunt Sulamith Messerer, and Alexander was taken by her uncle Asaf Messerer; these two relatives of Rachel were the principal dancers of the Bolshoi.