Avdotya Timofeyeva

She belonged to the first group of ballet dancers in the history of Russian ballet.

Timofejeva was a part of the first group of ballet students trained by the founder of the Russian ballet, Jean-Baptiste Landé, and was given a position in the ballet of the Imperial theatres in 1748.

She performed many parts in the ballets by Giovanni Battista Locatelli and Antonio Sacco.

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