Euroculture: The dancer and the painter

The dancer and the painter, by EuroCulture, in K et la piste du château, online resource, 2009.

The mosaics and paintings on the walls of Plovdiv are not random. They reveal the story of the painter and the dancer. Dimter and Roussalia, two artists whose destinies and lives have been tied to the city.

They got married when Roussalia was back on holidays from the Bolchoï. When visiting his new bride in Moscow, Dimiter Kirov started to draw and paint her, and soon they came back to Bulgaria, to Plovdiv.

With very little money to live on, they were put up for a long time in a small part of one of their friend’s house in the old side of town. But Roussalia’s career in Plovdiv grew more and more and Dimiter’s paintings started to sell. She became the star of the ballet of the opera, created the school of ballet of Plovdiv while she was still a dancer.

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