She - perchance, charming from ballet-dancers in history of ballet. Laconic and extremely restrained, closed and inaccessible in life, on the stage and on the screen she seemed embodiment of light and gladness - easy, elegant, effulgent, sparkling a humour in comic roles, but charming a deep dramatic effect in roles tragic. "Goddess". - with admiration whispered for her after a back.She is the great Russian ballet-dancer - Catherine Максимова!Frenchmen nicknamed her Madam "No" for that this word more often than other sounded from her mouths. Both our compatriots and numberless admirers all over the world repeated over and over again in one voice, that similar to her it is not, that such, as she, give birth one time in a century.Valentin Гафт devoted to her verses and lines : "you - eternal, as a wonderful instant from пушкинско-натальевской Rus".She lived long and bright creative innings in that always was alongside her husband and stage partner Vladimir Васильев. Never pretended to be and did nothing for show. In spite of great fame, tried not to bring over to itself attention. Open, heartfelt was with near, by friends - "main riches of the life".The characters created by Catherine Максимовой will remain part of the that world that she was faithful all life forever, in spite of what circumstances. Name to him is Ballet!