Natalia Petrovna Roslavleva was the pseudonym of Natalia Petrovna René (1907–1977), a Soviet dance historian and critic.

Life

Natalia René was born in 1907 in

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. She attended the

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in Moscow. Writing for the journal ''Ballet Today'' in the 1940s, she chose the name Natalia Roslavleva in hommage to the Russian dancer Lyubov Roslaveva (1874-1904). Roslavleva died of cancer in Moscow on January 3, 1977.

Works

* ''The "Beryozka" State Dance Company''. Moscow: Foreign Languages Pub. House, 1960. * ''Stanislavski and the ballet''. New York: Dance Perspectives, 1965. * ''Era of the Russian Ballet 1770–1965''. London: Victor Gollancz, 1966. * ''Prechistenka 20: the Isadora Duncan School in Moscow''. New York: Dance Perspectives, 1975

References

1907 births 1977 deaths Soviet women writers Soviet critics Soviet historians Soviet women historians Ballet critics Dance historians Writers from Kyiv {{USSR-bio-stub