MOSCOWMOSCOW — Legendary Russian ballerina Ekaterina Maximova, who graced the stage of the Bolshoi Theater for 30 years, died Tuesday. She was 70. The theater said Maximova died at home and no cause ...

A tiny, ravishingly pretty woman, Ekaterina Maximova formed "the Golden Couple of the 20th Century", as the Russians called them, with her husband, Vladimir Vasiliev. Enduring more than 30 years on ...

The news of Ekaterina Maximova's sudden death, issued by the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, was greeted with shock by her colleagues and admirers. Some of them had seen her just hours before at the ...

Ekaterina Maximova, 70, a legendary Russian ballerina who graced the stage of the Bolshoi Theater for 30 years, died Tuesday at her home in Moscow. The Bolshoi said the cause of death was not ...

MOSCOW — Legendary Russian ballerina Ekaterina Maximova, who graced the stage of the Bolshoi Theater for 30 years, died today. She was 70. The theater said Maximova died at home and no cause of death ...

Ekaterina Maximova, who has died suddenly aged 70, was one of the greatest and best loved of all Soviet ballerinas of the 20th century. A tiny, adorable artist of dazzling virtuosity and no less ...

MOSCOW - April 28, 2009 The theater said Maximova died at home and no cause of death was immediately determined. She had been working as a ballet coach and was not known to be suffering from ill ...

Ekaterina Maximova, a legendary Bolshoi Theatre ballerina and Soviet dance superstar, died on Tuesday (local time) at her home in Moscow aged 70. Bolshoi spokeswoman Katya Novikova told AFP that ...

Michael D Varcoe-Cocks writes: I would like to endorse Mary Clarke's description of the extraordinarily gifted Ekaterina Maximova (obituary, 29 April). In my 40-odd years watching dance, she was one ...