Today Galina P. Petrova celebrates her 101st birthday! It is our great pleasure to congratulate her on this wonderful day! Galina P. Petrova was the Bolshoi Theatre prima-ballerina; she danced with the company from 1933 till 1953, was the pedagogue of the classical dance at the Moscow Choreographic Institute (the Moscow State Academy of Choreography) from 1943 till 1957, and the Bolshoi Theatre pedagogue-repetiteur from 1953 till 1989.