WILL RENOWNED BALLERINA'S ASHES FIND LAST ABODE IN MOSCOW?








LONDON, MARCH 12, RIA NOVOSTI - Initially timed for March 13, ceremonial passage of Anna Pavlova's ashes to Russia is indefinitely suspended. At any rate, it will certainly not take place tomorrow, announced the Golders Green crematorium cemetery, where the ashes now are.


	No talks on the matter are underway, and the Moscow-based Anna Pavlova Foundation has not made a telephone call, said our interviewee, a cemetery employee. He is not sure there are any prospects at all to rebury the renowned ballerina.


	Anna Pavlova died in Britain, 1931. Shortly before his death in 1944, Victor Dandre, her husband, made a request to preserve his and Pavlova's ashes at the Golders Green later to pass them to Russia in case it made an official application.


	Now, the Anna Pavlova Mercy Foundation has applied for the remains reburied. Moscow municipal authorities joined it to promise that the ashes would find their last abode in the Novodevichi, the city's most honourable cemetery.


	However, according to an official statement the Russian Ambassador to Great Britain made last week, Moscow authorities had never made an official application to rebury Anna Pavlova in Moscow. Municipal officers pressed the point as they met with the British Ambassador to Russia, stressed the diplomat.


	Reburial prospects had from the start encountered with stubborn resistance by many prominent Russian cultural activists and the ballerina's surviving relations. The Russian public is not sure a reburial will be legally and morally justified, points out the Russian Ambassador.


	He appeals to Russian and British private persons to whom the initiative belongs to put the matter off "till all delicate issues are fully settled".