Celebrated for her strong technique and natural grandeur, she was a star soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet before finding a new audience in London. By Anna Kisselgoff Violetta Elvin, who as a young ...

Bolshoi-trained dancer who became a Sadler’s Wells principal ballerina alongside Margot Fonteyn, retiring at 32 to live in Italy Violetta Elvin was at the peak of her career as one of the brightest ...

Violetta Elvin, ballerina who was seen as a rival to Margot Fonteyn when she joined Covent Garden – obituary Beginning at the Bolshoi Ballet, she went on to be wildly popular in London but was kept in ...

John McAfee (pictured), Trần Thiện Khiêm, Karla Burns, Horace 'Lyle' Hutley Donald Rumsfeld (pictured), Menelik Shabazz, Elizabeth French Jehan Sadat (pictured), Michael Horovitz, Richard Ernst, Dilip ...