In the history of Russian ballet, the name of Olga Spesivtseva occupies a place no less important than the names of Anna Pavlova and Tamara Karsavina. The spectators saw for the first time in 1913 a beautiful young girl, full of tenderness and shyness, with large eyes filled with mystery. In the early twenties, this girl was a real idol for Russian youth and had delighted Paris. In the early nineties - after a long mental illness, she ended her days far from the Motherland, in one of those homes reserved for the elderly. A star and victim of her time, a forced recluse and prisoner of madness, her life is a tangle that goes from glory to oblivion and her name remains surrounded by mystery, enthusiasm and contempt.
