caption death_date death_place birth_place birth_date spouse birthname image article_title name
in '' the red shoes '' -lrb- 1948 -rrb- 21 march 2004 paris , france paris , france 10 october 1924 edmond raymond roi -lrb- 1953 -- 2004 -rrb- her death audran -lrb- 1946 -- 1951 -rrb- his death monique tchemerzine ludmila tchérina.jpg ludmilla tchérina
 ludmilla tchérina
ludmilla tchérina

ludmilla tchérina -lrb- 10 october 1924 -- 21 march 2004 -rrb- was a french prima ballerina , sculptor , actress , painter , choreographer and author of two novels .
tchérina was born monique tchemerzine , into circassian aristocracy as the daughter of kabardian prince avenir tchemerzine -lrb- shamyrze -rrb- , a former russian general , who had escaped from st. petersburg , and stéphane finette , a frenchwoman .
she studied with blanche d'alessandri , olga preobrajenska and clustine .
she started dancing at 16 and danced with the ballet russe de monte carlo , where she was spotted by serge lifar .
she made her paris debut creating the rôle of juliet in his `` romeo and juliet '' in 1942 , becoming the youngest prima ballerina in the history of dance .
in 1945 she was a principal dancer with the ballet des champs-Élysées and performed in paris concerts with her husband edmond audran .
she created various rôles in lifar 's ballets including : ` mephisto waltz ' in 1945 , ' in 1946 and in ' in 1957 .
she appeared often with the paris opera , the bolshoi ballet and the kirov ballet as a guest performer .
ludmilla tchérina acted in several films including `` the red shoes '' , ' , `` the tales of hoffmann '' , `` oh ... rosalinda !! ''
and `` luna de miel '' .
she also appeared in television .
in the 1980s she turned to writing and published two novels under her own name , ' -lrb- 1973 -rrb- and '' '' -lrb- 1986 -rrb- .
ludmilla tchérina had a lifelong passion for painting and exhibited in many major galleries .
she also conceived and executed several monumental sculptures , including `` europe à coeur '' , chosen in 1991 by the eu to symbolise the union of europe and now located at the european parliament .
in 1994 she created `` europa operanda '' , now installed at the french terminal of eurotunnel .
edmond audran , whom she married in 1946 , died in a car accident in 1951 .
she married raymond roi in 1953 .
she was decorated with the `` officier , legion d'honneur '' in 1980 tchérina died in 2004 , aged 79 , and is buried at the montmartre cemetery , paris .
