3rd class Rising Sun order document issued in 2011 to Soviet and Russian ballet dancer Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya

Awarded on November 3, 2011 to ロシア国人ブリセツカヤ・マイヤ・ミハイロヴナに - Russian Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya /Майя Михайловна Плисецкая/.
Rising Sun order No. 12 533 awarded to a foreigner.

 

Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Russian: Майя Михайловна Плисецкая; 20 November 1925 – 2 May 2015) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer, ballet director, and actress. In post-Soviet times, she held both Lithuanian and Spanish citizenship. She danced during the Soviet era at the Bolshoi Theatre under the directorships of Leonid Lavrovsky, then of Yury Grigorovich. In 1960, when famed Russian ballerina Galina Ulanova retired, Plisetskaya became prima ballerina assoluta of the company.​