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Evdokia or (informally) Avdotia Ilyinichna Istomina (; 1799–1848) was a Russian
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Evdokia or (informally) Avdotia Ilyinichna Istomina (; 1799–1848) was a Russian ballerina
A ballet dancer is a person who practices the art of classical ballet. Both females and males can practice ballet. They rely on years of extensive training and proper technique to become a part of a professional ballet company. Ballet dancer ...
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Biography
She was orphaned at a young age, but was accepted into the Imperial Theater School, where children could live in complete security.ru: Avdotia Istomina/ref> A pupil of
Charles Didelot
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, she debuted in the Imperial Russian Ballet
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in 1815 to immediate acclaim. Several people were killed duelling for her heart, and her honour was defended in the fourfold duel (1817): Count Zavadovsky killed Count Sheremetev
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History
The family held many high commanding ranks in the Russian military, governorships and eventually the ra ...
, while the Decembrist
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Yakubovich shot through a palm of the playwright Alexander Griboedov
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. Her dancing is the subject of a brilliant stanza in ''Eugene Onegin
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'', which was described by Vladimir Nabokov
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as the most mellifluous lines in the whole of Russian poetry.
She danced nearly all of the principal roles in ballets by Didelot. She became the first Russian dancer en pointe
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A
À la seconde
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. She served in the Imperial Ballet for twenty years. She married a young actor, but he soon died. Late in life she remarried, this time to the dramatic actor Pavel Ekunin (ru: Павел Семенович Экунин). By this time she was no longer performing leading roles and her income was reduced by half. In the 1835/1836 season, she was injured during the performance and was asked to leave for treatment. Emperor Nicholas I of Russia
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saw this request and wrote the order: to be dismissed. On 30 January 1836 Avdotya Istomina came on stage one last time and danced a little Russian dance.
She died of cholera on 26 June 26 (8 July) in 1848 in St. Petersburg. The inscription on her tomb: ''"Avdotya Ilyinichna Ekunina, a retired actress"''./ref>
See also
*List of Russian ballet dancers
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References
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