Aleksey Yermolayev

10 February] 1910 – 12 December 1975) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher.

He played an important role in the development of Russian ballet between 1950 and 1975, and he was considered an outstanding actor.

[2] His roles included the God of the Wind (The Talisman), Basilio (Don Quixote), Albert (Giselle), Siegfried (Swan Lake), Abderakhman (Raymonda), Ripafratta (Mirandolina), and Gireï (La Fontaine de Bakhchissaraï).

[3] In the 1955 Soviet film of the Romeo and Juliet ballet, Yermolayev danced Tybalt, the role he created in 1946.

Among his pupils were Alexander Godunov, Vladimir Vasiliev, Māris Liepa,[1] U. Vladimirov and M.

Marina Semyonova as the Princess and Aleksey Yermolayev as the Nutcracker in The Nutcracker , staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre , 1939.