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Alexander Ivanovich Pushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Пу́шкин; 7 September 1907 – 20 March 1970) was a Russian ballet dancer and ballet master. His students include Askold Makarov , Nikita Dolgushin , Oleg Vinogradov , Margarita Trayanova , [ 1 ] Mikhail Baryshnikov , Sergei Berezhnoy , [ 2 ] and Rudolf Nureyev .
The New York Times wrote, "The White Crow is a portrait of the artist as a young man, an attempt to show the complex array of factors — biographical, psychological, social, political — that led to the moment when the 23-year-old dancer made a decision that would change the history of ballet: Nureyev became Nureyev by defecting from Russia ...
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Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837) was a Russian poet. Alexander Pushkin may also refer to: Alexander Pushkin (ballet dancer) (1907–1970), Russian ballet master; Alexander Pushkin (diamond), colourless raw diamond found in Russia
During the period of 1932–1936 Zakharov became a choreographer of the Theater of Opera and Ballet named after S.M. Kirov Saint Petersburg (now the Mariinsky Theater), where in 1934 he staged his most famous ballet The Fountain of Bakhchisarai to the music of Boris Asafiev based on the poem by Alexander Pushkin. It was the ballet The Fountain ...
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Boris Godounov is a 1989 musical drama film written and directed by Andrzej Żuławski, based on the opera of the same name by Modest Mussorgsky and the 1825 play of the same name by Alexander Pushkin. The film features the 1872 version of Mussorgsky's score, although with significant cuts.
In order to hold to Pushkin's text, a narrator (played by Alla Demidova) appears in the streets and salons of St. Petersburg, convincingly telling the story in Pushkin's words. She begins narrating as she opens the door to the dining room of Narumov (played by Konstantin Grigoriev), where several aristocratic guards officers have been playing ...