Avdotia
Avdotya (russian: Авдо́тья) or Avdotia is a Russian feminine given name. It is a form of the Greek name Eudoxia/Eudokia/Eudocia, held by several saints honored in the Russian Orthodox Church. It is shared by the following people: * Avdotya Chernysheva (1693–1747), Russian noble and lady in waiting *Avdotia Istomina (''Avdotya Istomina'') (1799–1848), Russian ballerina *Avdotya Mikhaylova (1746–1807), Russian stage actress and opera singer *Avdotya Panaeva (1820–1893), Russian writer *Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova, character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel '' Crime and Punishment'' *Avdotya Timofeyeva Avdotia Timofeyeva (1739-?), was a Russian ballerina. She belonged to the first group of ballet dancers in the history of Russian ballet. Timofejeva was a part of the first group of ballet students trained by the founder of the Russian ballet, Jean- ... ( 1739), Russian ballerina See also * Eudoxia (name) - covers all people, places, ships etc. named either Eudoxi ...
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Avdotia Istomina
Evdokia or (informally) Avdotia Ilyinichna Istomina (; 1799–1848) was the most celebrated Russian Empire ballerina of the 19th century. Biography She was orphaned at a young age, but was accepted into the Imperial Theater School, where children could live in complete security. A pupil of Charles Didelot, she debuted in the Imperial Russian Ballet in 1815 to immediate acclaim. Several people were killed duelling for her heart, and her honour was defended in the fourfold duel (1817): Count Zavadovsky killed Count Sheremetev, while the Decembrist Yakubovich shot through a palm of the playwright Alexander Griboedov. Her dancing is the subject of a brilliant stanza in ''Eugene Onegin'', which was described by Vladimir Nabokov as the most mellifluous lines in the whole of Russian poetry. She danced nearly all of the principal roles in ballets by Di