Elizaveta Gerdt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Russian ballet dancer
Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1891
Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg
Date of Death: 06-Nov-1975
Profession: ballet dancer
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Elizaveta Gerdt
- Elizaveta Pavlovna Gerdt (Russian: ????????? ???????? ?????; 29 January [O.S.
- 17 January] 1891 – 6 November 1975) was a Russian dancer and teacher whose career links the Russian imperial and Soviet schools of classical dance. A daughter of celebrated dancer Paul Gerdt, she studied under Michel Fokine at the Imperial Ballet School, where her chief partner was Vaslav Nijinsky.
- She married another popular danseur, Samuil Adrianov (1884-1917; the first husband), who danced with Pierina Legnani and Mathilde Kschessinska, two ballerinas she sought to emulate. After the Russian Revolution Elizaveta Gerdt and Olga Spessivtseva were the only world-class dancers who chose to remain in Russia, while others emigrated to the West.
- In 1928, after 20 years of dancing, she resolved to abandon the stage and devote herself to teaching.
- She taught the class of perfection for the female dancers in the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theatre together with teaching the girls in her Alma mater (1927-1934).
- Then she moved from Leningrad to Moscow.
- There she taught the class for the female dancers at the Bolshoi Theatre, coaching ballerinas of the Bolshoi Ballet and also worked at the Moscow Ballet School (1935-1942 and 1945-1960). Among her students were Alla Shelest (in Leningrad), Irina Tikhomirnova, Maya Plisetskaya, Violetta Bovt, Mira Redina, Raisa Struchkova, Ekaterina Maksimova (in Moscow).
- With some of them she continued to collaborate at the theatre.
- Thus she coached Sulamith Messerer and later her niece Maya Plisetskaya.
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