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Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev [a] (17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the most preeminent male ballet dancer of his generation as well as one of the greatest ballet dancers of all time.
1967: Police arrest dancers Rudolph Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn on the roof of a house near the panhandle for being in the vicinity of pot smoking. December 1968 through January 1969: Police repeatedly called on student protesters by Chancellor S. I. Hayakawa. [49] [50] [51]
German tennis star Gottfried von Cramm was arrested by the Nazis for homosexual activity. [9] ... Born: Rudolf Nureyev, dancer, near Irkutsk, USSR (d. 1993); ...
Nureyev. The dance troupe of Russia's Kirov Ballet was at Le Bourget Airport and waiting to board a flight to London, when the star, dancer Rudolf Nureyev, was pulled aside by KGB agents and told that he was to take a 12:25 p.m. flight back to Moscow. Sensing that he would never be allowed to leave the Soviet Union again, Nureyev broke away ...
Rudolf Nureyev: Ballet dancer: Russia: 1961: Defected while on tour in Paris Jonas Pleškys: Submarine tender captain: Lithuania: 1961: Sailed vessel to Sweden; sentenced to death and hidden by the CIA from the USSR Valentin Poénaru: Mathematician: Romania: 1961: Defected at a conference in Stockholm, Sweden; known for low-dimensional topology ...
In The White Crow, young Rudolf Nureyev (played by Oleg Ivenko) first arrives in Paris to perform with St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre ballet troupe, but his immediate desire is to visit the ...
It was only after pressure from the central government that the burial of Rudolf Nureyev was sanctioned there. His tomb is covered with a mosaic decoration to represent a traditional kilim blanket. In November 2000 Russian president Vladimir Putin visited the cemetery [ 7 ] to pay homage to those buried there.
Valentino is a 1977 American biographical film co-written and directed by Ken Russell and starring Rudolf Nureyev, Leslie Caron, Michelle Phillips, and Carol Kane.It is loosely based on the life of silent film actor Rudolph Valentino, as recounted in the book Valentino, an Intimate Exposé of the Sheik, written by Chaw Mank and Brad Steiger.