Violetta Elvin (née Prokhorova; 3 November 1923 – 27 May 2021) was a Russian prima ballerina and actress.
[2] Elvin was only 20 when she had already danced the leads in Swan Lake, Marius Petipa's Don Quixote, and The Fountain of Bakhchisarai with the State Ballet of Tashkent.
[1][4] In 1945, she met and married British architect Harold Elvin in Moscow, and was allowed to leave the USSR.
[2] In 1959, she married Fernando Savarese, an Italian lawyer who also managed the family hotel on the Sorrento peninsula.
[2] A biographical novel about Elvin, written by Raffaele Lauro, titled Dance The Love - A Star in Vico Equense,[5][6][7] was presented in Vico Equense, in a national première, on 27 July 2016, within the Social World Film Festival - International Exhibition of Social Cinema.