1958 October 2 — wedding day.

Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin — together as always.

Dying Swan.
Photo by Georgy Soloviev/ from M. Plisetskaya archive.

Dying Swan.
Photo by Georgy Soloviev/ from M. Plisetskaya archive.

As Odette in Swan Lake.
Photo from M. Plisetskaya archive.

As Odile in Swan Lake.
Photo from M. Plisetskaya archive.

In the title part in Raymonda.
Photo from M. Plisetskaya archive.

As Kitri in Don Quixote.
Photo from M. Plisetskaya archive.

As Princess Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty.
Photo from M. Plisetskaya archive.

In the title part in Carmen Suite.
Photo from M. Plisetskaya archive.

In the title part in Anna Karenina.
Maris Liepa as Vronsky.
Photo by Georgy Soloviev/ from M. Plisetskaya archive.

La rose malade.
Opposite Alexander Godunov.
Photo by Vladimir Pchelkin/ from M. Plisetskaya archive.

Bolero.
Photo from M. Plisetskaya archive.

In the title part in Isedora.
Photo from M. Plisetskaya archive.

As Anna Sergeyevna in The Lady with the Dog.
Opposite Boris Efimov.
Photo by Larisa Pedenchuk/ from M. Plisetskaya archive.

Photofrom M. Plisetskaya archive.