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Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova was an outstanding Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method- the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old Imperial Ballet School.Vaganova's whole life was connected with the Imperial Ballet (later the Kirov Ballet) of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.