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| | Great names of Russian Ballet |
 | | Kschessinska was a close friend of both Nicholas II, who was executed in 1918, and his cousin the grand duke André, whom she married in 1921. |
| | She left Russia in 1920 and, for 30 years, taught in Paris; her pupils included Tatiana Riabouchinska and Margot Fonteyn. |
| | He became unpopular with the dancers for what they considered his dictatorial control of the company, and he left Russia in 1918 with choreography for 21 ballets recorded in Stepanoff dance notation, a system used by the Imperial Ballet at the end of the 19th century. |
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