10 Facts About Xenia Makletzova

Xenia Makletzova, sometimes seen as Xenia Maclezova, was a Russian ballet dancer.

Xenia Makletzova trained as a dancer at the Bolshoi Ballet School, graduating in 1908.

Xenia Makletzova was in the United States premiere of Les Sylphides with the Diaghilev company.

Xenia Makletzova was fired for insubordination by Diaghilev, after she refused to add another ballet to her repertoire or dance with Alexander Gavriloff, without an increase in her pay.

Diaghilev sued, but Makletzova countersued, and she was awarded $4,500 by a jury in Massachusetts.

Xenia Makletzova appeared in court with her mother, and wearing jewelry said to be given to her by the Czar.

Xenia Makletzova returned to the Mariinsky in 1917, but soon revolutionary tumult meant she had to leave Russia.

Xenia Makletzova toured in Asia for several years, then joined Mikhail Mordkin's short-lived Russian Ballet Company in the United States in 1926.

Xenia Makletzova was still with Kosloff in 1930, when she was a featured performer at the Doge's Ball in Miami, Florida.

Xenia Makletzova died in Long Beach, New York, in 1974, aged 81 years.