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Natalia Dunaeva was a literary scholar and art historian. In 1961, she graduated from the postgraduate program at Herzen Pedagogical Institute. Until 1967, she taught Russian and foreign literature at the Leningrad Choreographic School named after A. Y. Vaganova. Up until 1992, Dunaeva was the screenwriter for 30 educational and popular science films. From 1988 to 2020, she worked in the «Ballet Directing» department at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where she conducted a seminar on the descriptive reconstruction of forgotten ballets. Since 1991, she organized regular scholarly readings titled «Ballet History. Source Studies Research.»