Tatyana Legat, a Soviet ballerina, a representative of the famous ballet dynasty, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, died in a hospital in Moscow at the age of 88. Her great-grandfather Gustav Legat was a student of Marius Petipa. Her daughter Alena Solovieva told Interfax about the death of the ballerina.
Tatyana Legat was born on April 8, 1934 in Leningrad. In 1943, during the blockade, she entered the Leningrad Choreographic School, from which she graduated in 1953.
The legate was accepted into the troupe of the Mariinsky Theater, where she served until the end of the 1970s. She danced roles in more than forty performances. Legat’s partners included Natalia Dudinskaya and Rudolf Nureyev.
After the end of her artistic career, Legat worked as a teacher-tutor at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater in Moscow, since 1992 she became a teacher-tutor of the Boston Ballet in the USA. In 2010 she returned to Russia and began teaching and training ballet dancers at the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg. With the onset of the pandemic, her relatives moved her to Moscow.
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