Ana Pavlova was the most celebrated influential ballerina of her time having founded the first company to travel ballet around the world in 1911; she was a prima ballerina and choreographer of Russian decent.
Ana Pavlova was born into a home without her biological father, her mother was believed to have had an affair with a banker. However, Ana’s step-father was in the picture, he was a reserve soldier in Russia. Regardless of having a father figure she felt ashamed not knowing who her father was and created a façade about a man, named Pavel, who died when she was a toddler. Despite her childhood in poverty she found herself infatuated by a performance she attended with her mother, The Sleeping Beauty at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
Ana Pavlova was born into a home without her biological father, her mother was believed to have had an affair with a banker. However, Ana’s step-father was in the picture, he was a reserve soldier in Russia. Regardless of having a father figure she felt ashamed not knowing who her father was and created a façade about a man, named Pavel, who died when she was a toddler. Despite her childhood in poverty she found herself infatuated by a performance she attended with her mother, The Sleeping Beauty at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.