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Mariia Sergeyevna Surovshchikova-Petipa (27 February 1836 – 16 March 1882) was
Mariia Sergeyevna Surovshchikova-Petipa (27 February 1836 – 16 March 1882) was prima ballerina
A ballet dancer ( it, ballerina fem.; ''ballerino'' masc.) is a person who practices the art of classical ballet. Both females and males can practice ballet; however, dancers have a strict hierarchy and strict gender roles. They rely on yea ...
to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and wife of the noted choreographer Marius Petipa
Marius Ivanovich Petipa (russian: Мариус Иванович Петипа), born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (11 March 1818), was a French ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. Petipa is one of the most influential ballet masters an ...
.
Life
Mariia Sergeyevna Surovshchikova was born in St. Petersburg, the illegitimate daughter of a milliner. She studied at the St. PetersburgImperial Ballet School
The Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet is a school of classical ballet in St Petersburg, Russia. Established in 1738 during the reign of Empress Anna, the academy was known as the Imperial Ballet School until the Soviet era, when, after a brief hi ...
, graduating in 1854. After her graduation from the institute she entered into the ''corps de ballet'' of the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, and in 1854 married Marius Petipa, who at that time served as ''premier danseur'' to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres. Upon her marriage she took the name of Surovshchikova-Petipa.
Her rise to the rank of ''Ballerina'' coincided with Petipa's own rise from fledgling choreographer to ballet Master of the Imperial Theatres. As Petipa was given more and more opportunities to stage his own early works, it was Surovshchikova-Petipa who danced the principal roles. Petipa also revived many already-existing ballets for her, including Joseph Mazilier's '' Le Corsaire'' in 1863.
She had one daughter and one son— Marie Mariusovna Petipa (1857–1930), the noted ballerina and character dancer who danced in many of her father's works, and Jean Mariusovich Petipa (1859–1871).Garafola, Lynn. ''Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance.'' Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005, pp. 35–38
Upon her retirement she became an actress with the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, performing in the plays of Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...
, among others. In 1875 Petipa and Surovshchikova-Petipa divorced. She died in 1882 of virulent smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by variola virus (often called smallpox virus) which belongs to the genus Orthopoxvirus. The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (WHO) c ...
in Pyatigorsk
Pyatigorsk (russian: Пятиго́рск; Circassian: Псыхуабэ, ''Psıxwabæ'') is a city in Stavropol Krai, Russia located on the Podkumok River, about from the town of Mineralnye Vody where there is an international airport and about ...
, Russia.
See also
* List of Russian ballet dancersReferences