Background
Vera Mikhailovna Krasovskaya was born on September 11, 1915. She was the daughter of Mikhail Krasovskiy and Maria Krasovskaya.
Architect Rossi, 2, St. Petersburg, Russia, 191023
In 1933, Krasovskaya graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School in the class of teacher Agrippina Vaganova.
Mokhovaya St., 34, St. Petersburg, Russia, 191028
In 1951, Krasovskaya graduated from the theater department of the Leningrad Theater Institute of A. N. Ostrovsky.
Vera Mikhailovna Krasovskaya was born on September 11, 1915. She was the daughter of Mikhail Krasovskiy and Maria Krasovskaya.
In 1933, Krasovskaya graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School in the class of teacher Agrippina Vaganova. In 1951, she graduated from the theater department of the Leningrad Theater Institute of A. N. Ostrovsky.
Krasovskaya’s first dance review was published in 1941, the year she quit performing. Shortly thereafter she published the first of a series of eight books on ballet. The series was split into two, four-volume sets. Ballet Theater in Russia focused on choreographers and was completed in 1972. The second volume, Western European Ballet Theater, was published in 1996. While working on her historical sets Krasovskaya also researched and wrote biographies of other Russians involved in dance, including Anna Pavlova and Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova, under whom she had studied. Only one book, Nizhinskii, was published in English.
Krasovskaya danced professionally for only eight years, because she wanted to learn more about the history of art and because she was too lazy to become a really good dancer.
Krasovskaya did not shy away from criticizing her fellow dancers or productions, hoping the art would not stagnate from tradition.
In 1949, Krasovskaya married David Zolotnitskiy.