Maya Plisetskaya (1925–2015) was an outstanding ballet dancer, a choreographer, a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre from 1948 to 1990, a Full Cavalier of the Order For Merit to the Fatherland, a Hero of Socialist Labor, and a People's Artist of the USSR.
Maya Plisetskaya was born in Moscow. In 1943, after graduating from the Choreographic School, M. Plisetskaya was accepted into the Bolshoi Theatre and quickly became its leading ballet dancer. She became famous not only as a magnificent dancer, but also as a talented choreographer and ballet master.
The ballerina developed her own style, distinguished by grace, graphicity, sharpness, and completeness of gesture and posture. She was not afraid of stage experiments and possessed phenomenal creative longevity.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Maya Plisetskaya, an image of the Order For Merit to the Fatherland, inscription “100th Years from the Birthday” and a surcharge of the new denomination.
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