Decades before a member of the all-female Russian band Pussy Riot escaped from Russia after criticizing President Vladimir Putin, the Soviet Union’s top ballet star, Rudolf Nureyev, made a dash for freedom at the Paris airport.
this week. She went to Vilnius, Lithuania, where she met up with fellow band member Lucy Shtein, who had quietly escaped earlier.The band leader followed in the footsteps of Nureyev, who was born on a Trans-Siberian train in Siberia. He gained ballet fame in the U.S.S.R. as a teenager and was promoted to lead male dancer in the Kirov Ballet, now known as the St. Petersburg Marinsky Ballet. In Paris, young Nureyev had performed to rave reviews.
Nureyev said he wanted asylum. “Then relaxed and looking almost gay, he was put into a car with a police escort and driven into Paris,” the AP reported. Nureyev showed a moment’s panic when the driver suddenly changed routes to avoid a traffic jam. “Soviet embassy?” the Russian anxiously asked. But the driver took him to the French Interior Ministry.
In late 1961, he began teaming up with British Royal Ballet star Dame Margot Fonteyn for performances in Europe and the United States. He became part of the international jet set, socializing with Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Mick Jagger, Freddie Mercury and Andy Warhol. In 1983, he became director of the Paris Opera Ballet. He finally returned to Russia in 1987 to see his dying mother after obtaining consent from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
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