Olga Smirnova (ballet) instrument of her art form", revealing his enthusiasm for her pas de deux with Semyon Chudin at the Royal Opera House. He also acclaimed her roles the same week of Odette-Odile in "Swan Lake". The enthusiasm was reflected by Clement Crisp of the "Financial Times" while Zoë Anderson of "The Independent" was impressed by her performance of Nikiya in "La Bayadère" in which she "carrie[d] the story with aplomb". Olga Smirnova (ballet) Olga Smirnova (born 1991) is a Russian ballet dancer who is currently a prima ballerina with the Bolshoi Ballet. She has danced at venues across Europe as well
Odette Tchernine Tchernine. Her second novel, published in 1922, was about the Australian bush. Odette Tchernine Odette Tchernine ( – ) was a British author, novelist and journalist, notable for writing several books on the Abominable Snowman or Yeti, such as "In Pursuit of the Abominable Snowman", Taplinger Publishing, 1971. Before "In Pursuit", she published "The Snowman and Company". Initially a socialite and novelist, she earned a reputation from the 1950s through the 1970s "as one of Britain's most formidable monster hunters." Tchernine was born in Paris to a Russian financier father, Dimitri Tchernine (Dmitry Chernin), and a French mother, Yvonne, from