Plisetskaya

As for the 1972 “Anna Karenina” that Maya Plisetskaya choreographed for the Bolshoi Ballet, Wheater did not care for its score, by Rodion Shchedrin.

Performing as Odette-Odile, she won the admiration of Maya Plisetskaya, the Bolshoi’s prima, and other leading Russian dancers.

She vehemently denounced Solzhenitsyn, and banned the Bolshoi Ballet’s version of “Carmen” in 1967 over prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya’s sensual performance and “un-Soviet” costumes that did not cover enough leg.

But Plisetskaya, whom Khrushchev once called the world’s best dancer, fought back.

President Underwood might have been pleased at the multitude of sharp-edged trench coats at Gabriela Hearst, who built her collection around imagining the life of Maya Plisetskaya, the Russian ballerina who grew up in a gulag and, as the show notes said, “was a woman of style, resourceful in a scarce environment.”