Exhibit on pioneering Russian ballerina opens in Kamakura

KAMAKURA, Japan - A photo exhibition chronicling the life of Nadejda Pavlova (1906-1982), a pioneering Russian ballerina, opens in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture on Sept. 29, 2012. Pavlova fled her native Russia after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution to settle in Japan and popularized the art of ballet dancing in the Asian country.

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