Irina Baronova

Irina Mikhailovna Baronova FRAD (Russian: Ирина Михайловна Баронова) (March 13, 1919 – June 28, 2008) was a Russian ballerina who was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s. She created roles in Léonide Massine's Le Beau Danube (1924), Jeux d'enfants (1932), and Les Présages (1933); and in Bronislava Nijinska's Les Cent Baisers (1935).