Sad as it may be, however, Tatyana Yurievna Leskova is the last representative of her kind, great-granddaughter of the writer Nikolai Leskov. She lives in Rio de Janeiro and considers herself "Russian in heart." So the revolution and the civil war of the beginning of the twentieth century scattered Russian people.
Everything that happened to the Leskov family could not break them. Tatyana Yuryevna says that it all happened exactly thanks to Russian roots. And because she always remembered where her roots were.
Despite this, Tatyana Yuryevna is considered the founder of the Brazilian ballet - after all, it was she who put on stunning performances at the Rio de Janeiro Opera House.
Biography
Tatyana Leskova was born in 1922 in Paris. Her father was a diplomat before the revolution, and her mother was a secular lady, a baroness. After the Leskovs traveled to different countries in attempts to return to Russia, they settled in Paris, where their daughter Tatyana was soon born.
Father in France worked as a translator, mother became a fashion model. Soon they divorced, and Tanya stayed with her mother. However, soon my mother died of tuberculosis, and Yuri Nikolaevich took care of his daughter.
Tanya grew painful, she constantly had to be taken to the water, to other hospitals. And then the father decided that it should be hardened physically. And since he was an inveterate balletoman, he enrolled his daughter in a ballet school.
And from this something unusual came out: the girl suddenly revealed talent. And over time, she acquired an excellent technique. On the recommendation of the teacher, she was taken to the famous troupe Ballets Russes, which was the heiress of the inimitable "Russian Diaghilev Ballet". Moreover, at that time Tatyana was the youngest member of the team.
Ballerina career
The ballet Ballets Russes was very popular in different countries, he toured a lot. And Tatyana was often in the lead roles in productions. But World War II soon began, Europe plunged into hostilities, and ballet in the lives of people took almost the last place.
Then the troupe Ballets Russes migrated to Latin America: they performed in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and their work was a great success there.
Tatiana thought she would spend some time on the American continent until the war ended. However, it so happened that she settled here forever.
In 1944, Ballets Russes arrived in Rio de Janeiro, where Tatyana remained. The reason for this was not only because the ballerina had no work in Europe - she was stopped by the love of a Brazilian. But the affair was short-lived.
Ballet dancers were welcomed in Latin America, but all sorts of times happened. It happened that they were not paid a salary, and then had to dance in nightclubs. It happened that the audience did not accept any performance, and had to redo it all over again.
Nevertheless, in 1948 Tatyana Leskova organized her ballet troupe, and in 1950 she was invited to the Opera House of the Brazilian capital, where she first danced and then began to stage performances.
In 1960, she met with the choreographer Leonid Myasin, and he offered her cooperation, which was a great honor. She was also familiar with the ballet stars Balanchin, Nuriev and others, and with all found a common language.
Leskova later restored Myasin’s ballets with his son and staged them in Brazil.
