Word: pierina
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Only other to hold this internationally respected rank handed out by the Russian Imperial Ballet-and unused in the Soviet Union today-was Italy's Pierina Legnani, who startled the Russians with her famous 32 fouettés (whipping turns) in 1893. She died in 1923. Kchessinska, 81, still lives in Paris, with her husband, the Grand Duke André, 75. The Duke does the daily shopping while the Absolute Ballerina gives ballet lessons and does a little polite gambling on the side...
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