[ventana]

She was one of the greatest Bolshoi ballerinas, and one of the world's great ballerinas. Prima ballerina assoluta!!! Galina, Maya, and Ekatarina. Ekatarina's feet, her beautiful legs, her scene stealing pauses en pointe, and her epaulement! Brava! V's wife

[RayChuang88]

Many ballet fans say that Maximova was in many ways the successor to Maya Plisetskaya as the #1 female ballet dancer of the Bolshoi troupe--she could have taken the title prima ballerina assoluta had she wanted it.