Ballerina and Honored Artist of the RSFSR Irina Gensler died at the age of 96
On the 97th year of life in St. Petersburg, a ballerina, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Irina Gensler died. Farewell will take place on October 27. This was reported in the press service of the Academy of Russian Ballet named after A. Ya. Vaganova.
On the 97th year of life in St. Petersburg, a ballerina, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Irina Gensler died. Farewell will take place on October 27. This was reported in the press service of the Academy of Russian Ballet named after A. Ya. Vaganova.
The artist died on October 22. Vaganova Academy expressed condolences to relatives and friends of Irina Gensler and said that they will remember her "demanding for purity of dance and responsive to innovations, strict and smiling.".
Farewell to the ballerina will take place on October 27 in the Trinity Cathedral, and an hour later she will be buried in the Gromov cemetery.
Irina Gensler graduated from LHU in 1948, was a soloist of S. M. Kirov GATOB and served there for 30 years. Until 2024, she worked as a teacher and professor at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.
