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Tatiana Riabouchinska (Russian: Татьяна Рябушинская) (23 May 1917 – 24 August 2000) was a Russian-American ballet dancer and teacher. Famous at age fourteen as one of the three "baby ballerinas" of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo in the 1930s, she matured into an artist that critics called "the most unusual dancer of her generation." She was born in Moscow as Tatyana Mikhaylovna Ryabushinskaya a few months before the October Revolution in 1917. Because her father was a banker to the tsar, the whole family was put under house arrest, but with the help of their... MORE

Tatiana Riabouchinska (Russian: Татьяна Рябушинская) (23 May 1917 – 24 August 2000) was a Russian-American ballet dancer and teacher. Famous at age fourteen as one of the three "baby ballerinas" of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo in the 1930s, she matured into an artist that critics called "the most unusual dancer of her generation." She was born in Moscow as Tatyana Mikhaylovna Ryabushinskaya a few months before the October Revolution in 1917. Because her father was a banker to the tsar, the whole family was put under house arrest, but with the help of their servants her mother and the four children escaped and fled through the Caucasus, arriving eventually in the south of France. A few years after they had settled in Paris, Tatiana, known as Tania, began her ballet studies with Alexandre Volinine, who had trained at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow. She then attended the classes of Mathilde Kschessinska, a friend of the family who had been prima ballerina assoluta of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters. Under Volinine's tutelage, she developed strength, elevation, and speed; under Kschessinska's, quick footwork and lyrical port de bras. At fourteen, Riabouchinska was LESS