Trukhanova, Natalya Vladimirovna

Natalia Vladimir Trukhanova ( 1885 - 1956 ) - Russian ballerina.

Natalya Vladimirovna Trukhanova
L. Bakst. Costume design Peri for N. Trukhanova. 1911
Birth name	Natalya Vladimirovna Bostunova
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Profession	ballet dancer
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The daughter of the Russian actor, the premiere of the Kiev operetta, Vladimir (Edmund, in honor of the hero of the play A. Dyum “Kin”) Davydovich Bostunov and Marie Brown - French, born in Alsace .

After arriving with her mother in Moscow , at the age of fifteen and a half, she married Lieutenant B. F. Trukhanov (the marriage was aimed at breaking free from family custody), which she soon divorced.

Since 1904 she lived in France . In a short time, she turned into a great dance master. She worked and was familiar with Sergey Diaghilev , Fedor Chaliapin , Richard Strauss , Isadora Duncan . Her friends, colleagues, associates were Maurice Ravel , Max Reinhardt , Camille Saint-Saens , to whose music Trukhanova's “ Dance of Death ” created a choreographic miniature that shocked the composer. L.V. Sobinov in one of his letters was surprised to note: “Trukhanova is full of thoughts about her dances. I did not even expect that she had such a serious occupation ... On her desk is a photograph of Massenet with the most flattering inscription. In the next season, she will dance here his new ballet. "

In 1911, Paul Ducas dedicated the artist to his ballet Peri , which she performed in Paris in 1912 . Since 1918, she was the wife of A.A. Ignatiev , with whom she came to Russia in 1937.

The author of the memoirs, “On the Stage and Behind the Scenes,” noted by Academician Tarle as “lovely memoirs full of a male mind and charming femininity.”