List of Russian ballet dancers

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|{{interlanguage link|Boris Akimov|ru|Акимов, Борис Борисович}}
(born 1946)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Danseur, Bolshoi Theatre

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|File:Мария Александрова в балете "Дон Кихот".jpg, Bolshoi Theatre, 22 June 2011]]

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|Elena Andreianova
(1819–1857)
Russian Empire
Prima ballerina, Bolshoi Theatre, Mariinsky Ballet

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|George Balanchine
(1904–1983)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
France
United States
(Georgian descent)
Choreographer, balletmaster

|Balanchine was one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, a balletmaster of the Ballets Russes in France, founding balletmaster (and co-founder) of New York City Ballet: his work created modern ballet, based on his deep knowledge of classical forms and techniques.

|File:Suzanne Farrell and George Balanchine NYWTS.jpg in Don Quixote]]

|Irina Baronova
(1919–2008)
Soviet Union
Romania
France
United States
Switzerland
Russian Federation
Australia
Ballerina, ballet mistress

|She was one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, discovered by George Balanchine in Paris in the 1930s. She created roles in Léonide Massine's Le Beau Danube (1924), Jeux d'enfants (1932), and Les Présages (1933); and in Bronislava Nijinska's Les Cent Baisers (1935). Between 1940 and 1951 Baronova appeared in several films, and worked as ballet mistress for the 1980 film Nijinsky.

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|Mikhail Baryshnikov
(born 1948)
Soviet Union
United States
Danseur

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|File:Belogolovtsev Abderahman.jpg", Bolshoi Theatre, 2010]]

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|Violetta Bovt
(1927–1995)
United States
Soviet Union
Ballerina, Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre

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|Catherine Chislova
(1846–1889)
Russian Empire
Ballerina

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|Lubov Egorova
(1880–1972)
Russian Empire
France
Ballerina, Mariinsky Theatre

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|Olga Esina (in Russian Ольга Есина) is a Russian ballerina who was educated at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in St. Petersburg. In 2010 she became First Solo Dancer at the Vienna State Ballet.

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|Nikolai Fadeyechev was born in Moscow, was a Soviet Russian dancer ballet, was dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, graduated from the Moscow Ballet School in 1952 and joined the Bolshoi Theatre, danced many principal roles. He danced alongside some of the great ballerinas such as Galina Ulanova in "Giselle" and "Les Sylphides", was a regular partner with Maya Plisetskaya, Raisa Struchkova, Nina Timofeeva, Marina Kondratyeva, Natalia Bessmertnova, Ekaterina Maximova, Ludmila Semenyaka. After that, he became one of the most important teachers and répétiteurs of the Bolshoi Theatre. Nikolay Tsiskaridze, {{ill|Andrey Ivanovich Uvarov|ru|Уваров, Андрей Иванович|lt=Andrey Uvarov}}, Sergei Filin, Artem Ovcharenko were among her adepts.

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|Sergei Filin
(born 1970)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Dancer, Artistic Director, Bolshoi Theater

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|Mikhail Fokine
(1880–1942)
Russian Empire
United States
Danseur

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|Yekaterina Geltzer
(1876–1962)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Prima ballerina, Bolshoi Theatre

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|Pavel Gerdt
(1844–1917)
Russian Empire
Premier Danseur Noble

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(1872–1963)
Italy
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Ballerina, Bolshoi Theatre, La Scala

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|Alexander Godunov
(1949–1995)
Soviet Union
United States
Danseur

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|Alexander Gorsky
(1871–1924)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Danseur, ballet master, Mariinsky Theatre, Bolshoi Theatre

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|File:N Gracheva Raymonda.jpg". Nadezhda Gracheva as Raymonda, Bolshoi Theatre, 2010]]

|Yury Grigorovich
(1927–2025)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Danseur, Choreographer, Ballet master, Mariinsky Theatre, Bolshoi Theatre

|Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich is a Soviet and Russian dancer and choreographer who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years. Grigorovich was born into a family connected with the Imperial Russian Ballet. He graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School in 1946 and danced as a soloist of the Kirov Ballet until 1962. His staging of Sergey Prokofiev's The Stone Flower (1957) and of {{ill|The Legend of Love (ballet)|ru|Легенда о любви (Меликов)|lt=The Legend of Love}} (1961) brought him acclaim as a choreographer. In 1964 he moved to the Bolshoi Theatre, where he would work as an Artistic director until 1995. His most famous productions at the Bolshoi were "The Legend of Love" (1965, 2002), The Nutcracker (1966), Spartacus (1967), {{ill|Ivan the Terrible (ballet)|ru|Иван Грозный (балет)}} (1975), The Golden Age (1982, 1994, 2006). Other notable productions The Sleeping Beauty (1963, 1973, 2011), Swan Lake (1969, 2001), Romeo and Juliet (1979, 2010), Raymonda (1984, 2003), Giselle (1987), La Bayadère (1991), Don Quixote (1994), Le Corsaire (1994). Сhoreographed for various Russian companies before settling in Krasnodar, where he set up his own company. Grigorovich has been heading the juries of numerous international competitions in classical ballet. After the death of his wife, the great ballerina Natalia Bessmertnova, on 19 February 2008, he has been offered the opportunity to return to the Bolshoi again in the capacity of ballet master and choreographer.

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|Avdotia Istomina
(1799–1848)
Russian Empire
Prima ballerina

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|Lev Ivanov
(1834–1901)
Russian Empire
Danseur, choreographer, ballet master, Mariinsky Theatre

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|Viktorina Kapitonova
(born 1985)
Russian Federation
Switzerland
Prima ballerina

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|Vera Karalli
(1889–1972)
Russian Empire
Weimar Republic
Nazi Germany
Austria
Soviet Union
Ballerina, actress

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(1812–1842)
Russian Empire
Ballerina, Bolshoi Theater

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|Tamara Karsavina
(1885–1978)
Russian Empire
United Kingdom
Prima ballerina

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|Evgenia Kolosova
(1780–1869)
Russian Empire
Ballerina

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|Theodore Kosloff
(1882–1956)
Russian Empire
United States
Danseur

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|File:Theodore Kosloff 1913 Scheherazade.jpg in Fokine's 1913 production of Scheherazade]]

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|Mathilde Kschessinska
(1872–1971)
Russian Empire
France
Prima ballerina assoluta

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|Olga Lepeshinskaya
(1916–2008)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Prima ballerina, Bolshoi Theatre

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|Andris Liepa
(born 1962)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Latvia
Danseur, Bolshoi Theatre, Mariinsky Theatre, Theatre director, Theatrical producer

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|Ilze Liepa
(born 1963)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Ballerina, Bolshoi Theatre

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|Serge Lifar
(1905–1986)
Russian Empire
France
Danseur, ballet master

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|Lydia Lopokova
(1892–1981)
Russian Empire
United Kingdom
Ballerina

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|Natalia Makarova
(born 1940)
Soviet Union
United States
prima ballerina assoluta
Choreographer, Teacher, Kirov Ballet

|Defected to the West in 1970. Initially active with the Royal Ballet then settled in US and active globally

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|Léonide Massine
(1896–1979)
Russian Empire
Danseur, choreographer

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Soviet Union

Russian Federation

Danseur, choreographer, Actor

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|Ekaterina Sergeevna Maximova was a Soviet and Russian ballerina of international renown. Maximova was coached by the legendary ballerina Galina Ulanova. Her greatest successes were the roles of Kitri in Don Quixote, Clara (called Maria in the Bolshoi production) in The Nutcracker, and the title roles in Giselle and Cinderella. Maximova performed with the Bolshoi Ballet from 1958 until 1980, often performing opposite her husband Vladimir Vasiliev. She and her husband gained wide exposure for their appearances in Franco Zeffirelli's filmed version of Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata (1983). When the Bolshoi Ballet toured to the United States for the first time in 1959, Maximova also performed as a guest artist with the Metropolitan Opera in leading roles in The Stone Flower and other ballets. Following her career as a dancer, Maximova was a coach with the ballet and a member of the GITIS Institute faculty. After that, she became one of the most important teachers and répétiteurs of the Bolshoi Theatre. Galina Stepanenko, Svetlana Lunkina, Marianna Ryzhkina, Anna Nikulina were among her adepts.

|File:RIAN archive 503726 Yekaterina Maksimova and Vladimir Vasilyev performing at Bolshoi Theater.jpg' ballet Don Quixote staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. 1 January 1971]]

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|Sulamith Messerer
(1908–2004)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
United Kingdom
Japan
Ballerina,choreographer

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|Awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award for best dancer in the world in 1988. Defected to the West in 1990. Settled in the United Kingdom where he performed in leading roles before taking up choreography.

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|Bronislava Nijinska
(1891–1972)
Polish
Russian Empire
United States
Prima Ballerina, choreographer

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|Irma Nioradze
(born 1969)
Soviet Union
Georgia
Russian Federation
Ballerina, Mariinsky Theatre

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|Rudolf Nureyev
(1938–1993)
Soviet Union
France
Austria
Danseur, choreographer, Mariinsky Theatre, Paris Opera

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|Artem Ovcharenko
(born 1986)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Dancer, Bolshoi Theatre

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|Valery Panov
(born 1938)
Soviet Union
Israel
Danseur, choreographer, Mariinsky Theatre

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|Anna Pavlova
(1881–1931)
Russian Empire
The Netherlands
Prima ballerina

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|Nadezhda Pavlova
(born 1956)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Prima ballerina, Bolshoi Theatre

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|Marie Petipa
(1857–1930)
Russian Empire
France
Ballerina

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|Marius Petipa
(1818–1910)
France
Russian Empire
Danseur, choreographer, ballet master, Mariinsky Theatre

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|Maya Plisetskaya
(1925–2015)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Lithuania
Spain
Prima ballerina assoluta, Bolshoi Theatre

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|Olga Preobrajenska
(1871–1962)
Russian Empire
France
Ballerina, Mariinsky Theatre

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|Tatiana Riabouchinska
(1917–2000)
Russian Empire
France
United States
Ballerina

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|Ida Rubinstein
(1883–1960)
Russian Empire
France
Ballerina, actress

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|Olga Ivanovna Pavlova trained at both the Leningrad State Choreographic Institute and Moscow Choreographic School and performed throughout Russia until her marriage in the early 1930s to a Japanese diplomat. Moving to Japan in 1936, she was influential in establishing ballet in Japan.{{cite journal |last1=Кадзи |first1=Аяко |last2=Шелаева |first2=Алла |title="Вы бросали в нас цветами незнакомогоискусства...": русские балерины на службеяпонскому классическому балету |journal=Петербургский исторический журнал [Saint-Petersburg Historical Journal] |date=2019 |issue=1 |pages=251–264 |doi=10.51255/2311-603x-2019-00015 |trans-title='You Threw Flowers of Unfamiliar Art at Us...': Russian Ballerinas in the Service of Japanese Classical Ballet |publisher=Издательство "Нестор-История" |location=Saint Petersburg |language=ru |issn=2311-603X}}

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|Marina Semyonova
(1908–2010)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Prima ballerina assoluta, Teacher, Mariinsky Theatre, Bolshoi Theatre

|Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova was the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina. She was born in Saint-Petersburg. She was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1975. She worked in the Kirov Ballet until 1930, transferred to the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Semyonova was guest with the Paris Opéra Ballet in 1935 where she danced Giselle with Serge Lifar. She received the Stalin Prize for 1941 and retired in 1952. After that, she became one of the most important teachers and répétiteurs of the Bolshoi Theatre. Natalia Bessmertnova, Marina Kondratyeva, Nadezhda Pavlova, Nina Sorokina, Ludmila Semenyaka, Nina Timofeeva, Nina Ananiashvili, Galina Stepanenko and Nikolay Tsiskaridze were among her adepts. In 2003, she won the Prix Benois de la Danse for lifetime achievement. Semyonova retired from her coaching duties at the age of 96, died on 9 June 2010 in her home in Moscow, three days before her 102nd birthday.

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|Olga Spessivtseva
(1895–1991)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
France
United States
Prima ballerina, Mariinsky Theatre

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|Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa
(1836–1882)
Russian Empire
Prima ballerina

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|Trained in Paris by Preobrajenska, Tchinarova was closely associated with Balanchine's Baby Ballerinas and a member of Wassily de Basil's Original Ballet Russe, and Les Ballets 1933. In Australia she created roles for the Kirsova Ballet and for Edouard Borovansky. She worked on films with husband, Peter Finch. Settled in the UK from 1948 she was an English/Russian interpreter for ballet companies and author of dancer biographies and history.

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|Ekaterina Telesheva
(1804–1857)
Russian Empire
Ballerina, Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre

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|Nina Timofeeva
(born 1935)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Israel
Ballerina, Mariinsky Theatre, Bolshoi Theatre

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|Liudmila Titova
(born 1987)
Russian Federation
Prima ballerina, Director, Royal Moscow Ballet

|Liudmila Titova ({{langx|ru|Людмила Титова}}){{cite web | url=http://artrepriza.ru/star/1249-lyudmila-titova-predela-chelovecheskih-vozmozhnostey-net-ya-znayu-chto-sposobna-na-bolshee.html | title=Людмила Титова: "Предела человеческих возможностей нет, я знаю, что способна на большее | publisher=интернет-журнал ArtРЕПРИЗА | year=2014 | access-date=15 July 2014 | author=Наталья Бритвина}} was born 9 October 1987 in Moscow, Russia, and has been called "one of the most celebrated ballet dancer and ballet teacher in the world."{{cite web | url=http://www.gulftime.ae/ballet-is-food-for-thought-titova/ | title='BALLET' IS FOOD FOR THOUGHT – Titova | work=The Gulf Times| year=2014 | access-date=29 June 2014 | author=Ritika Sharma | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://archive.today/20140805091157/http://www.gulftime.ae/ballet-is-food-for-thought-titova/ | archive-date=5 August 2014}} Born in Moscow, Russia, Liudmila Titova started dancing at the age of seven years based on recommendation from her doctor to help with a problem with her back.{{Cite web|url=http://artrepriza.ru/star/1249-lyudmila-titova-predela-chelovecheskih-vozmozhnostey-net-ya-znayu-chto-sposobna-na-bolshee.html|title = Людмила Титова: "Предела человеческих возможностей нет, я знаю, что способна на большее" » ArtРЕПРИЗА - мир культуры и искусства}} She joined the school's dance club and found herself dancing every day. At the age of 10, she took a three-day examination and physical and was only seven out of 105 applicants admitted into the Bolshoi Academy of Ballet,{{cite web | url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/raising-the-barre-another-side-to-the-world-of-black-swan-26780199.html | title=Raising the barre: Another side to the world of 'Black Swan' | publisher=The Independent of Ireland | year=2014 | access-date=25 July 2014 | author=Chrissie Russell}} also known as the Moscow State Academy of Choreography, where her area of study became, "Theatre of Classical Ballet" by Smirnov-Golovanov. For the next eight years, Titova trained eight hours per day, six days per week. After graduating the world-renown, prestigious Bolshoi Academy of Ballet, Liudmila Titova went to work for the Royal Moscow Ballet Company. The Royal Moscow Ballet Company is located in Moscow, Russia, so Liudmila Titova was able to stay in her native Moscow. At the early age just 19, Liudmila was given leading a role in one of the world's most coveted plays, "Cinderella".{{Cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/raising-the-barre-another-side-to-the-world-of-black-swan-26780199.html|title = Raising the barre: Another side to the world of 'Black Swan'}} This unimaginable feat is unheard of in the Ballet realm, where leading roles are generally earned by ballet dancers after many years or performances, usually after the age of 25. Liudmila was such a success, she went on to be the lead in other famous plays, such as "The Nutcracker," "Don Quixote," "Giselle," "Bolero," "Carmen," "Romeo and Juliet," "Sleeping Beauty," "Swan Lake," and "The Time."

In 2014, at the age of 26, Liudmila Titova was promoted to the position of the General Director of the Royal Moscow Ballet.

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|Nikolay Tsiskaridze
(born 1973)
Soviet Union
Georgia
Russian Federation
dancer, Bolshoi Theatre

|Nikolay Tsiskaridze, also spelled Ziskaridze, one of the most decorated Russian dancers, was a premier dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet for 21 years. Ethnically Georgian, he was born in Tbilisi on 31 December 1973. He joined the Moscow Ballet School in 1987 and was admitted into the Bolshoi Ballet in 1991. In 1992 Tsiskaridze joined the ballet company of the Bolshoi Theater. The then artistic director Yuri Grigorovich saw Nikolai at the graduation exam. At the theater he had the good fortune to enter the class of prominent ballerina Marina Semyonova, and as Nikolai says, became his second mother. The legendary Galina Ulanova also assisted him. Over the course of his dance career he performed more than 70 roles in major classical works. One of the best ballet princes, he is equally convincing in modern choreographies. Roland Petit, who staged "La Dame de Pique" in 2001, created the role of Hermann especially for Tsiskaridze. In 1996, he graduated from the Teacher Training Department of the Moscow Ballet Academy and since 2003 had been teaching a daily ballet class at the Bolshoi Theatre combining his dance career with coaching. Besides, since 2004 he had been also teaching at the Moscow Ballet Academy. He became the youngest person to be named a People's Artist of Russia (2001). He received the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 2001 and 2003 and the Prix Benois de la Danse in 1999. During his career he received many honours - Silver medal at the Osaka Ballet Competition (1995), Golden medal at the Moscow Ballet Competition (1997), Honoured Artist of Russia (1997), Russian Golden Mask theatrical prize (1998, 2000, 2003),Benois de la Danse (1999), Order of Honour of the Republic of Georgia (2003), Danza&Danza award as best dancer of the year 2003, Triumph prize (2004), Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Française (2006), People's Artist of North Osetia —Alania Republic (2013). In 2014, Tsiskaridze graduated as a Master of Law at Kutafin Moscow State Law University. On 29 Nov 2014 Tsiskaridze was elected as Rector of Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet in Saint Petersburg, est. in 1738.

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|Tamara Toumanova
(1919–1996)
Russian SFSR
France
United States
(Georgian descent)
Prima ballerina, choreographer

|Trained in Paris by Preobrajenska, Toumanova was one of Balanchine's Baby Ballerinas and a close colleague of Léonide Massine. She made her debut in the children's ballet L'Éventail de Jeanne. Nicknamed The Black Pearl of the Russian Ballet, she performed in Balanchine's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme and Le Palais de Cristal. She appeared in Hollywood films, including The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Tonight We Sing (playing Anna Pavlova), Deep in My Heart, Days of Glory, and Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain.

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|Galina Ulanova
(1910–1998)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Prima ballerina assoluta, Mariinsky Theatre, Bolshoi Theatre

| Trained under Agrippina Vaganova and her own mother, a ballerina of the Imperial Russian Ballet, Ulanova joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 1928. After 1944 she became a prima ballerina assoluta in Bolshoi Theatre. In 1945 she danced the title role in the world premiere of Prokofiev's Cinderella. On her first international tour in 1956 she achieved enormous success. Having retired from the stage in 1960, Ulanova coached many generations of the Russian dancers. After that, she became one of the most important teachers and répétiteurs of the Bolshoi Theatre. Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, Svetlana Adyrkhaeva, Nina Timofeeva, Ludmila Semenyaka, {{ill|Nina Semizorova|ru|Семизорова, Нина Львовна}}, {{ill|Alla Mikhalchenko|ru|Михальченко, Алла Анатольевна}}, Nadezhda Gracheva and Nikolay Tsiskaridze were among her adepts.

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|Agrippina Vaganova
(1879–1951)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Ballerina, Teacher, ballet master

|Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova was a Russian ballet teacher who developed the Vaganova method – the technique which derived from the teaching methods of the old Imperial Ballet School (today the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet) under the Premier Maître de Ballet Marius Petipa throughout the mid to late 19th century, though mostly throughout the 1880s and 1890s. It was Vaganova who perfected and cultivated this form of teaching the art of classical ballet into a workable syllabus. Her Fundamentals of the Classical Dance (1934) remains a standard textbook for the instruction of ballet technique. Her technique is one of the most popular techniques today. Among Vaganova's dance alumnae were the distinguished Soviet ballerinas Marina Semenova, {{ill|Olga Jordan|ru|Иордан, Ольга Генриховна}}, Galina Ulanova, {{ill|Tatiana Vecheslova|ru|Вечеслова, Татьяна Михайловна}}, {{ill|Feya Balabina|ru|Балабина, Фея Ивановна}}, Natalia Dudinskaya, Alla Shelest, {{ill|Nonna Yastrebova|ru|Ястребова, Нонна Борисовна}}, {{ill|Olga Moiseeva|ru|Моисеева, Ольга Николаевна}}, {{ill|Ludmilla Safronova|ru|Сафронова, Людмила Николаевна}}, Ninel Kurgapkina, Alla Osipenko and Irina Kolpakova. Shortly after her death, on 1 November 1957, the Choreographic College on Rossi street was renamed in her honor; in 1961, it received the title of "academic" and in 1991 it began to use the name Agrippina Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.

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|Vladimir Vasiliev
(born 1940)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Danseur, Bolshoi Theatre

|Vladimir Viktorovich Vasiliev a Russian ballet dancer, was premier dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet, and was best known for his role of Spartacus and his powerful leaps and turns, graduated from the Moscow Ballet School in 1958 (his teachers included Aleksey Yermolayev) and joined the Bolshoi Ballet. He became a premier dancer who made enormous contributions to the development of classical male dance; he came to embody the strong new Bolshoi male. He was the first dancer to be given the award la médaille d’or du meilleur danseur du Monde ("The Gold Medal of the World’s Best Dancer"); subsequently Mikhail Baryshnikov and Patrick Dupond were also awarded the distinction. Russia's influential ballet critic and choreographer Fyodor Lopukhov called him "God of the dance … A miracle in art, perfection". Numerous roles were created for him, and he performed throughout the world, usually partnering his wife, Bolshoi prima ballerina Ekaterina Maximova. Among the most notable were those created by Yuri Grigorovich, who gave him the principal roles in his original productions of Spartacus, The Nutcracker, Ivan the Terrible. Nonetheless, he and Maximova gleaned wide exposure for their appearances in Franco Zeffirelli's filmed version of Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata (1983). Both performed in Spanish costume (Vasiliev as a matador) in the divertissements composed for the equivalent of Act II, scene 2. Besides Maximova, Vasiliev's famous partners included: Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya, Alicia Alonso, Carla Fracci, Rita Poelvoorde and Ambra Vallo.

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|Ekaterina Vazem
(1848–1937)
Russian Empire
Soviet Union
Prima ballerina, Teacher, Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, Mariinsky Theatre

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|Diana Vishneva
(born 1976)
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
Prima ballerina, Mariinsky Theatre

|Vishneva is one of the 21st century's leading dancers; she is a prima ballerina at the Mariinsky Ballet since 1995 and performs as a guest in ABT since 2005, as well as on other world scenes. Her repertoire includes Don Quixote, Romeo and Juliet, La Bayadère, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, and Giselle. She also performs in George Balanchine's Jewels and Kenneth MacMillan's Manon.

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|Pierre Vladimiroff
(1893–1970)
Russian Empire
France
United States
Danseur

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|Anastasia Volochkova
(born 1976)
Russia
Ballerina

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|Stella Voskovetskaya
(born 1965)
Soviet Union
United States
Ballet dancer, Choreographer, Mariinsky Theatre

|Stella Voskovetskaya, Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet graduate, Founder and Artistic Director of [http://www.illinoisclassicalballet.com/ Illinois Classical Ballet.] created a unique and very effective system of training where she blended elements of training from Vaganova ballet school, where the training program for children is truly unique and was tested for centuries and unusually effective system barre au sol developed by Boris Knyazev

That program significantly speed up and improve the training of young ballet dancers, helped with correcting posture, turnout in all three positions, flexibility and balance

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|Svetlana Zakharova
(born 1979)
Soviet Union
Russia
Prima ballerina, Bolshoi Theatre

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