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-Vera
was a Russian Dancer and was the widow of the famous Michel
Fokine (b.1880-1942). She graduated from the St. Petersburg
"Imperial School of Ballet" in 1904. Vera married
Michel Fokine in 1905 and became one of his most faithful
disciples. They had a son named Vitale.
Vera achieved her greatest
fame in Western Europe where she began her appearance's
in 1908 with the Diaghileff ballet. Danced for awhile in
the Maryinsky ballet theater until 1918, when she resigned
and moved to New York with her husband Michel Fokine in
1919.
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