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Pavlova’s unending wait even 70 years after death |
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September 12, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - It may be months before the ashes of famed prima ballerina Anna Pavlova are returned for burial in a Moscow cemetery alongside many of Russia's most famous artists, officials said Monday. Russian press reports earlier this month said the remains of the ballerina and her husband, Victor Dandre, would be reburied in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery on Thursday. But officials said Monday that no date had been set for the return and burial of the ashes. Harvey Thomas, a spokesman for the London Cremation Company, which owns the Golders Green Crematorium in London where the ashes now lie, said Monday that it may be several months before the ashes are returned because arrangements are still being made. Pavlova was born in Russia's imperial capital St. Petersburg in 1881, and she created a sensation dancing for the famed Mariinsky Theater. She moved to London in 1912, and launched world tours that introduced many to the beauty of classical ballet. She died in 1931 and her ashes were interred at the Golders Green cemetery. Pavlova's wish was that her remains be buried at Novodevichy Cemetery. |