Galina Ulanova is the most titled ballerina in the history of the Soviet ballet. Galina Ulanova, one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century. Her performances in Moscow, London, Vienna, New York, Tokyo, Paris and other cities and capitals of the world caused the audience's constant delight. Ulanova worked as a teacher-tutor at the Bolshoi Theater, also with soloists of the Paris Opera, the Hamburg Ballet, the Royal Swedish Ballet, the Australian Ballet and dancers from Japan.

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In 1956, within the framework of cultural cooperation between Great Britain and the USSR, the Royal Ballet toured in Moscow and Leningrad, and the Bolshoi Theater in London.  It was after this trip to London that Galina Ulanova gained worldwide popularity.

According to the English ballet critic Peter Brinson, the 1956 Soviet ballet tour was such an exciting theatrical event for London, which it has not experienced since the arrival of Diaghilev's ballet in 1910.

The Bolshoi Theater brought four performances: "Swan Lake", "Giselle", "Romeo and Juliet", and the "Fountain of Bakhchisarai". The idea of "returning Shakespeare to his homeland" belonged to the Bolshoi and aroused the enthusiasm of British producers. Members of the British royal family, leading dancers of the Covent Garden ballet, led by prima ballerina Margot Fontaine.  There were also  Tamara Karsavina, Beryl Gray, Svetlana Berezova, Alisa Markova, choreographers Frederic Ashton, founder of the first English ballet company Ninette de Valois. The newspapers the next day wrote: an extraordinary spectacle, brilliant, extraordinary, divine!