Elena Poliakova was a Russian ballet dancer and ballet master, born in 1884 in Saint Petersburg, who died in 1972.
Biography
Elena Dmitriyevna Poliakova (Russian: Еле́на Дми́триевна Поляко́ва; 7 May 1884 – 25 July 1972) was a Russian and Yugoslav prima ballerina, choreographer, and influential ballet pedagogue.
She was a soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre and a member of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. After emigrating, she worked in Yugoslavia, where she contributed to the establishment of professional ballet and the development of ballet education. In the later period of her life, she taught in Chile.
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