ЩЕЛКУНЧИК -- ВАСИЛЬЕВ и МАКСИМОВА

Vladimir Vasiliev Ekaterina Maximova Sergei Radchenko V. Levashev Nutcracker Bolshoi Tchaikovsky Maximova’s “Masha was an introverted, intelligent girl, touching in her shy infatuation with the ugly Nutcracker and in her position on the threshold of adolescence. It was obvious that the evolution of this highly sensitive girl, passing from ’children’s games to the dawn of love,’ as one critic noted, had a powerful effect on Maximova’s theatrical instincts“ Gennady Smakov, The Great Russian Dancers 1984,