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Before beginning a rehearsal, Nina stretches her legs.

Nina and Gregory head from their apartment to the Bolshoi Ballet house for a morning rehearsal.

Nina and her husband Gregory live in a one-room apartment in Moscow where the two sleep on the couch on which Nina is shown here telephoning. Despite her stardom as a ballerina, she lives a very modest lifestyle in Moscow.

Bolshoi prima ballerina Nina Ananiashivile prepares for her lead role in the famed company's performance of Swan Lake in Moscow.

An East German border police with a portable visa counter, stamps visas for East Germans who could for the first time travel freely to the west.

East German border police stand with nothing now to do but watch as East Germans poured through an opening of the Berlin Wall at Potsdammer Platz.

During one of the first openings of the Berlin Wall, at Potsdammer Platz, West Germans perched on top of the wall to watch East Germans crossing into the west.

An East German is overcome with emotion as he crossed the newly opened Berlin Wall into West Berlin.

West Germans cheer East Germans as they crossed into West Germany from East Berlin at an opening at Potsdammer Platz.

At an opening in the Berlin Wall made at Potsdammer Platz in Berlin, East German police stand with West Germans watching as East Germans crossed into the West.