Muravieva, Martha Nicolayevna
(1838–1879)> BALLERINA
Muravieva, Martha Nicolayevna (11 July 1838, Russia; 27 April 1879, Russia), ballerina, was born into a peasant family and made her debut as a child in 1848 at St. Petersburg. Her ability to dance convincingly in Perrot’s Le Délire d’un peintre at age ten aroused the interest of teachers like Eugène Huguet and Marius Petipa , and she was soon considered one of the foremost dancers of Russia despite her extreme youth. After Emma Livry ’s accident at the Paris Opéra on 15 November 1862, Emile…