Anna Johansson

Anna Johannson
Anna Johannson as the Fairy Canari (center) in The Sleeping Beauty
Born	1860 Saint Petersburg
Died	1917 Petrograd

Anna Christianovna Johansson (Russian: Анна Христиановна Иогансон) (1860-1917), was a Russian ballerina who danced with the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet.

Anna Johansson was the daughter of Christian Johansson, the noted Swedish choreographer, teacher and Balletmaster at the Russian Imperial Ballet. She studied ballet with her father and rose to a position as a noted soloist in the Imperial Ballet at the Maryinsky Theatre.

She created many of the most famous soloist roles in the Petipa/Ivanov repertoire. These roles include the following:

After retiring from the stage, following her father's footsteps, she became a celebrated teacher of the classe de perfectionnement at the Imperial Ballet School until her death in 1917.