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The success of the ballet "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai" was stunning. The public - and not just the Leningrad specifically went to look at the duo of Galina Ulanova and Tatiana Vecheslova . Ulanova - Mary Vecheslova - Zarema . One - the embodiment of loyalty , the other - sizzling passion . Contemporaries enthusiastically discussing the play , and the criticism practiced in search of adjectives and superlatives .
The famous theater critic Nikolai Volkov ( the general public is mostly famous as the author of two volumes of Meyerhold , published " Academy " in the late 20 's) said: " Excellent Artist Vecheslova has a palette of feelings than Ulanova . She is able to not only love , but hate. One can hardly imagine a sword in the hands of Zarema Ulanova. And naturally compresses the dagger Vecheslova ! She still paints thickened , bright , intense. This is not a watercolor , and " oil ."
Only friends know how these were born in front of becoming a classic images. Ulanova recalled: " At rehearsals, " The Fountain of Bakhchisarai " I initially could not help but laugh when my merry Tanya gravely raised me dagger to kill me , Mary - Zarema opponent . We always feared that this laughter is not attacked me during the performance. So I lowered my eyes , not only for his role as needed - I tried not to see the faces of Tani. She had a marvelous gift of dance and acting . It captures his talent not only spectators, but actors us - we are always behind the scenes of the crowd to see her . "

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For several years, Valentine Hodasevich together with a number of well-known cultural figures vacationing at Lake Seliger. Memories of those days devoted a chapter in his memoirs Vecheslova "I Ballerina " and Hodasevich book "Portraits of words." Here is an episode related to the summer of 1940 , when the company is expected soon to Seliger Alexei Tolstoy with his wife : " I want dignity and parade to welcome visitors . From the lake to the house was attached to an outdoor terrace with a sweeping staircase in the center. Flooring terraces , stairs and railings were reinforced with thick logs forming in the corners of the high tables . solemnly We decided to decorate them . on the lower poles planted domesticated and tamed my two hawks on the top at the last moment were " on the arabesque " two dancers (one of them - Tatiana Vecheslova , by restlessness to match the tall, the other - Galina Ulanova ) , on the other pillars in huge clay makitry were incredible amount bouquets of wildflowers . sleepy on the train and fill up on the ship Tolstoy was stunned by what he saw . "
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In the photo on the far left Hodasevich Valentine , with her Tatiana Vecheslova