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Archive Home > 2008 > December > 22 > Olga Lepeshinskaya was Bolshoi ballerina

Olga Lepeshinskaya was Bolshoi ballerina

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
December 22, 2008

MOSCOW — Olga Lepeshinskaya, the Bolshoi Ballet’s prima ballerina for three decades during the Soviet times, has died at the age of 92.

Nataliya Uvarova, a spokeswoman for Russia’s Culture Ministry, said Lepeshinskaya died Saturday of an unspecified illness. The....

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