http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=iLj5rsHrS ... re=relatedSo many people ask how tall Alina Somova is and I honestly do not know, but I have been next to her several times and my guess is 5'4". Many think she is around 5'8" and one thinks she is over 6 foot tall. I am showing a fragment of the Ballerina documentary which has been put on youtube by several people.
What i show is the curtain calls after her debut in Swan Lake when she is standing next to Evgeny Ivanchenko. Then later she stands next to Evgenia Obraztsova. I do not know how tall Ivenchenko or Obraztsova are, but I have been next to Obraztsova several times and I do not 
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think that she is over 5 foot tall.
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This video will not answer your questions, but anyone that thinks she is over 5'6" will realize that they are wrong. 
1 foot =12 djuimam  .1 djuim =2.54
 D.Vishneva   na swoem sajte soobschila  ,chto ona 168 sm 
N.Osipova soobschila   -167 sm 
W ocenkax Ketinoa 
E.Obrazcova  =  152.4 sm 
A.Somova    = 162.51 sm
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   Na scene  takaja situazija  maloverojatna
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i  instrumental*nomu  powedenju  
   E. Kanaeva w Pekine bila 18 let -168 sm
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Goethe ychawstwowal w orgijax  itoze wozmozno gomoseksualist,faschist D'Annunzio imel ljubownizu ewrejku -aktrisu Saru  Berrnar,
F.Nietzsche obwinen R.Wagnerom w homoseksual*noj swjazi s ewreem  .Ego  ljubowniza (wposledstwii  takze ljubowniza Z.Frejda -homoseksualista -ewreja) -doch generala iz Sankt-Peterburga 
Lou von Salome  "dokaziwala "   chto dwizenie kalowix mass  w prjamoj kischke  yawljaetsja  prichinoj orgazma 
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  Puschkin rabotal w Ministerstwe inostrannix del  ,t.e. filosofi  Gorgias ( yspeschnij grecheskij diplomat ),
Machiavelli (ital*janskij    politik,diplomat &)  bili emu ili ego okruzeniju znakomi 
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