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and friend of hers Igor Stupnikov called her "a woman of sharp mind and great sense of humour who was a staunch advocate of everything new and progressive. She helped greatly the young choreographers, such as Yuri Grigorovich and Igor Belsky, passionately defending their first ballets on the Kirov
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She married the writer David Zolotnitskiy in October 1949. Krasovskaya had a son who went on to become a professor at St Petersburg Theatre Academy and was stepmother to one daughter. On 15 August 1999, she died at her home in Saint Petersburg following a long and serious illness. Four days later,
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In the 1950s, Krasovskaya was a prominent figure in urging new approaches to dancing in drama, publishing in pamphlets and the press as well as on meaning and content in ballet, which resulted in some relaxation of certain attitudes considered limited. In 1955, Krasovskaya earned an arts criticism
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Krasovskaya's works led to her privately receiving the arts and literature Triumph Prize in December 1998 for her contribution to Russian culture. This was the first occasion in which a recipient was honoured for their work on dance since it was first presented in 1992.
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After completing her first volume, she went on begin authoring a larger second volume focusing on the history of ballet in Western Europe. The first of Krasovskaya's three volumes were published as
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Zinovieva), and had one brother. Krasovskaya's grandfather was a pre-revolution senator and her mother was fluent in multiple languages. In 1924, she began her career studying as a dancer at the
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in 1933. She continued to dance for the following eight years because she desired to learn about art history and was not active enough to improve her dancing ability.
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She also contributed to various booklets, encyclopedias, foreign media, the Russian press, introductions to books on the art of ballet and reference books on ballet.
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Krasovskaya was outspoken on the current development in ballet. The St Petersburg correspondent for the
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She travelled to the United States in 1989 to present at the Balatine Conference in Miami and at
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Inozemtseva, Galina; Federenko, Elena G. (2005). "Russia". In Cohen, Selma Jeanne (ed.).
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In 1956, she published her first study on the Georgian choreographer and dancer
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from 1933 to 1941 before stepping down to become a critic and studied at the
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Krasovskaya's birth was on 11 September 1915 (old style 29 August 1915) in
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Krasovskaya published her first piece of criticism on dance called about
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Ballet Theater from Its Origins to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
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Russian Ballet Theatre of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
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Russian Ballet Theater From the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
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Russkii baletnyi teatr ot vozniknoveniya do ceredinii XIX veka
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and graduated from it in 1933. Krasovskaya performed with the
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Krasovskaya was buried at the Memorial Komarovo cemetery in
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From the Beginning to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century
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Eastern Slavic naming customs
patronymic
family name

Petrograd
Leningrad Ballet School
Leningrad Ostrovsky Institute of Theatre
Russian
Leningrad Ballet School
Kirov Ballet
Mariinsky Theatre
Leningrad Ostrovsky Institute of Theatre
Anna Pavlova
Vaslav Nijinsky
Natalia Dudinskaya
Irina Kolpakova
Nikita Dolgushin
Agrippina Vaganova
Petrograd
née
Leningrad Ballet School
Agrippina Vaganova
Kirov Ballet
Mariinsky Theatre
Leningrad Ostrovsky Institute of Theatre
Yuri Slonimsky
New York University
Alla Shelest
Vakhtang Chabukiani
Petipa

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