Triumph Prize, 2000. Premium "Russian National Olympus" (2000) Prince of Asturias Award (2005, Spain) Imperial Prize of Japan (2006) See also List of dancers List of Russian ballet dancers References External links , 1 hr. 11 min. , documentary biography, 1 hr. 20 min. , 3 1/2 min. Maya Plisetskaya and Alexander Godunov in "Carmen", at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow , 2 1/2 min. "Maya Plisetskaya – Bolero, by Ravel", video, 20 min. 1925 births 2015 deaths 20th-century Russian ballet dancers Dancers from Moscow Bolshoi Ballet principal dancers Prima ballerina assolutas Russian ballerinas Soviet ballerinas Soviet choreographers Russian people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent Soviet Jews Russian Jews Heroes of Socialist Labour Honored Artists of the RSFSR People's Artists of the RSFSR People's Artists of the USSR Full Cavaliers of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" Lenin Prize winners Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Commander's Crosses of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas Commander's Grand Crosses of the Order for Merits to Lithuania Commanders of the Order of Isabella the Catholic Commandeurs of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Recipients of the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis Recipients of the Order of Isabella the Catholic Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class Russian emigrants to Germany Plisetski–Messerer family Jewish actresses