Ekaterina Maximova

Yekaterina Maximova Sergejewna (Russian Екатерина Сергеевна Максимова; born 1 February 1939 in Moscow, † April 28, 2009 ibid ) was a Russian ballet dancer.

Ekaterina Maximova was 1958-1988 Star at the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre. She was married for 50 years with the dancer Vladimir Vasilyev. They were the dream couple of the Russian Ballet at home and abroad.

Your signature role was the Clara, in the original Russian Masha in Tchaikovsky's " Nutcracker". Worldwide achievements came as Giselle in the ballet, Adolphe Adam, as landlord's daughter Kitri in Léon Minkus " Don Quixote ", a swan princess Odette and Odile in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake", as Cinderella ( Cinderella ) in the ballet Sergei Prokofiev and Juliet in Prokofiev's " Romeo and Juliet ".

Your last appearance on the Bolshoi stage she had on 1 February 1999, her 60th birthday, in Michael Clark's mini ballet " The Gardens of Villandry " to music by Franz Schubert.

It was in 1981 awarded the State Prize of the USSR; In 1973 she was honored as People's Artist of the USSR.