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- Birth nameMarina Timofeyevna Semyonova
- Marina Semyonova was born on June 12, 1908 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was an actress, known for The Grand Concert (1951), Nastenka Ustinova (1934) and When the Spirit Soars in Flight (1959). She was married to Lev Karakhan. She died on June 9, 2010 in Moscow, Russia.
- SpouseLev Karakhan(? - 1937) (his death)
- Her husband, Lev Karakhan, a senior Soviet diplomat, was executed as part of Joseph Stalin's purges in 1937.
- The Bolshoi Ballet's prima ballerina from 1930-1952. Taught Nina Sorokina, Nadezhda Pavlova, Maya Plisetskaya, and Natalia Bessmertnova.
- After she retired from dancing, she was a ballet teacher until the age of 96.
- Her career began at the Mariinsky Theater. In 1930, she joined the Bolshoi. In the mid-1930s, she made guest appearances at the Paris Opera Ballet, which was unusual during the Soviet regime.
- She was a legendary ballerina of the Soviet Union.
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