Education
Sulamith studied in the Moscow Ballet School under Vasily Tikhomirov and Elisabeth Gerdt and danced in the Bolshoi Theatre from 1926 until 1950.
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Sulamith Messerer
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Career
She also practised swimming all her life and held the Soviet swimming record for the 100-metres crawl between 1927 and 1930. From 1950 until 1980, she was also active as a ballet mistress and teacher in the Bolshoi. Since 1961, she spent much time in Tokyo, where she mastered Japanese and was instrumental in establishing the Tokyo Ballet.
In 1980, at the age of 72, she defected to Great Britain, where she continued to work as a much sought-after coach.
Her many honours included the Stalin Prize (1946), the Order of the Sacred Treasures (1996), and the Order of the British Empire (2000).
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Nationality
Russian Empire Soviet Unio