Although the term ballerina is used for any female ballet dancer it was originally a rank given to an exceptional ballet soloist in the Russian Imperial ballet companies. The rankings, from highest to lowest, were:
Maya Plisetskaya, primaballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1943 to 1960 and prima balerina assoluta from 1960 to 1990.
Although the term ballerina is used for any female ballet dancer it was originally a rank given to an exceptional ballet soloist in the Russian Imperial ballet companies.
There were only two primaballerina assoluta in Imperial Russia - Pierina Legnani and Mathilde Kschessinska, and two primaballerina assoluta in Soviet Russia - Galina Ulanova and Maya Plisetskaya.
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