 |  | | | Red Giselle | Wednesday 28 January 2004 | | |
 Olga Spessivtzeva was one of Russia's most famous and most tragic classical ballerinas, legendary as the greatest Giselle in the history of ballet.
She was an international star in the 1920s and 1930s, but her life imitated her role, and, like the doomed Giselle, she suffered a sad demise.
Claudia Hammond went in search of the real Olga. She started by talking to Jane Pritchard, the archivist for the Royal and the English National Ballets, about the effect the young Olga had at the Imperial ballet school in St Petersburg.
Giselle, performed by the Royal Ballet is at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London until 7th February.
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