Larissa Kaur


Larissa Kaur is an Estonian dancer.
Kaur was born in Baku, Azerbaijan of mixed Greek and Ukrainian heritage. She graduated from the Tallinn Choreography School in 1959, then trained with Natalia Dudinskaya in 1960 at the Mariinsky Ballet.
Between 1961 and 1979, she danced as a prima ballerina at the Estonian SSR National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre. She has also appeared in Viru and Astoria variety shows and was a print model for the largest and most popular fashion magazines in Estonia and Eastern Europe. Kaur posed many times as the cover girl of her local fashion magazine Siluett.
In 1965 Kaur became a member of the Estonian Theater Association.
Kaur's father was in the military, while her son is politician and local government figure Max Kaur.

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