Natalya Dudinskaya，Natalia Dudinskaya was a leading ballerina of the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia. She was born Natalia Mikhailovna Dudinskaya on August 21, 1912, in Kharkov, Russian Empire (now Kharkiv, Ukraine). Her mother was Natalia Alexandovna Tagliori, a notable Russian ballerina of Italian heritage. Her father was a musician.