Tatiana Riabouchinska Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Tatiana Mikhailovna Riabouchinska (Russian: Татьяна Михайловна Рябушинская; 23 May 1917 – 24 August 2000) was a Russian-American prima ballerina and teacher. Famous at age fourteen as one of the three "Baby Ballerinas" of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in the 1930s, she matured into an artist whom critics called "the most unusual dancer of her generation."
With Tamara Toumanova, 13, and Irina Baronova, 13, one of the "baby ballerinas". This was a nickname given to the trio in 1933, during their first season in London, by the ballet writer Arnold Haskell.
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Hyacinth the Hippo was based on Tatiana, and her partner in the pas de deux, Ben Ali Gator, on her husband David Lichine.
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She and her husband David Lichine were among the ballet dancers who served as models for the Disney animators of Fantasia (1940).