Background
KARELSKAYA, Rimma was born in 1927.
KARELSKAYA, Rimma was born in 1927.
Moscow Ballet School of Bolshoi Theatre.
Raymonda (Raymonda by Glazunov), Laureneia (Laurencia by Krein), Lilac Fairy (Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky), Sovereign of the Dryads and Street Dancer (Don Quixote by Minkus), Mirta (Giselle by Adan), Odette-Odille (Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky), Zaremba (Fountains of Bakhchisarai by Asafyev), Firebird (Firebird by Stravinsky), the Servant Girl (Thunder Road by Kara Karayev), Tsar Devitsa (Humpbacked Horse by Pugni), the Swan (Dying Swan by Saint-Saens).Joined Bolshoi Ballet 1946. Has toured with Bolshoi Ballet in United Kingdom, Australia, Belgium, China, Netherlands, New Zealand, Egypt, Poland, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Czechoslovakia and Japan. Honoured Artist of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic 1962.