List of Russian ballet dancers

Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes' travels abroad profoundly influenced the development of dance worldwide.

A protégé of Diaghilev, George Balanchine, founded the New York City Ballet Company.

The Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and the Mariinsky in Saint Petersburg remain famous throughout the world.

KazakhstanPrima ballerina, Mariinsky Theatre (born 1971) Soviet Union Russian Federation Danseur, choreographer, Actor In 2014, at the age of 26, Liudmila Titova was promoted to the position of the General Director of the Royal Moscow Ballet.

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 Media related to Ballet dancers from Russia at Wikimedia Commons

Mathilde Kschessinskaya and Pavel Gerdt in La Bayadère ballet by the ballet master Marius Petipa and the composer Ludwig Minkus , 1900
Maria Alexandrova as Kitri in Don Quixote , Bolshoi Theatre , 22 June 2011
Balanchine and Suzanne Farrell in Don Quixote
A photo with Baronova's autograph
Mikhail Baryshnikov with Patricia McBride in Le baiser de la fée
Dmitri Belogolovtsev as Abderahman, " Raymonda ", Bolshoi Theatre , 2010
A scene from ballet " Giselle ". Natalia Bessmertnova as Giselle.
Violetta Bovt and Arkady Nikolaev. 1965
Catherine Chislova c. 1865
Danilova as Fanny Cerrito in Pas de Quatre , 1948
Lubov Egorova in the title role of the choreographer Marius Petipa 's and the composer Cesare Pugni 's ballet The Blue Dahlia , 1905
Olga Esina and Roman Lazik, "Donauwalzer" Belvedere, Vienna, 1 January 2012
Nikolai Fadeyechev in a scene from Pyotr Tchaikovsky 's ballet Swan Lake staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. 1 January 1956
Mikhail Fokine as the hussar in Halte de Cavelerie , Saint Petersburg, c. 1900
Elizaveta Gerdt , Elsa Vill , and Pierre Vladimirov in the "Paquita" Pas de Trois, 1905
Adelaide Giuri [ ru ] as Odette and Mikhail Mordkin as Prince Siegfried in Alexander Gorsky 's staging of the Petipa / Ivanov " Swan Lake " for the Bolshoi Theatre , Moscow, 1901. A young Vera Karalli is seen kneeling.
Ballets by Alexander Gorsky In Philately "Gudule’s Daughter" (a revision of the " La Esmeralda ") (1902), " Salammbô " (1910), " Don Quixote " (1900), " Giselle " (1907), " La Bayadère " (1917)
A scene from " Raymonda ". Nadezhda Gracheva as Raymonda, Bolshoi Theatre , 2010
Dmitry Gudanov as Albrecht in " Giselle ", Bolshoi Theatre , 21 January 2011
Lev Ivanov costumed as Solor for Act I of " La Bayadère ". St. Petersburg, 1877.
Russian ballerina Vera Karalli, 1910s
Russian ballerina Tamara Karsavina (c. 1912)
Marina Kondratyeva as Giselle and Maris Liepa as Albrecht in a scene from Act 1 of Adolphe Charles Adam 's ballet Giselle staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. 1 January 1972
Theodore Kosloff in Fokine 's 1913 production of Scheherazade
Ekaterina Krysanova as Aurora in The Sleeping Beauty , Bolshoi Theatre , 2012
Russian ballerina Mathilde Kschessinskaya in "The Talisman" , 1905. Mariinsky Theatre , St. Petersburg, Russia
Olga Lepeshinskaya as Kitry in Don Quixote . 1940
Marina Kondratyeva as Giselle and Maris Liepa as Albrecht in a scene from Act 1 of Adolphe Charles Adam 's ballet Giselle staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. 1 January 1972
Ulyana Lopatkina of the Mariinsky Ballet in Swan Lake at the Royal Opera House . 7 August 2009
Ballerina Lydia Lopokova
Elena Lukom and Vladimir Ponomarev as ballet " Les Caprices du Papillon ". St. Petersburg , Russia . 1919
Svetlana Lunkina as Odette in Swan Lake , Bolshoi Theatre , 22 May 2011
Natalia Makarova 2012
Natalia Makarova 2012
Yekaterina Maksimova (R) as Kitri and Vladimir Vasilyev as Basilio in a scene from Ludwig Minkus ' ballet Don Quixote staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR . 1 January 1971
Evgenia Obraztsova dancing "The Sleeping Beauty" , Royal Opera House , London , November 2009
Natalia Osipova in an extract from " Flames of Paris ", at the October 2011 reopening gala of the Bolshoi Theatre
Artem Ovcharenko as Jean de Brienne, " Raymonda ", Bolshoi Theatre, 2010
Anna Pavlova in the Fokine/Saint-Saëns The Dying Swan , Saint Petersburg, 1905
Ballets by Marius Petipa In Philately " Paquita " (1847), " The Sleeping Beauty " (1890), " Swan Lake " (1895), " Raymonda " (1898)
Maya Plisetskaya performing in Carmen ( Carmen Suite ). 1974
Olga Preobrajenska in the title role of the choreographer Louis Méranté 's and the composer Léo Delibes 's ballet "Sylvia", Mariinski-Ballett , 1901
Sapphire performing in Giselle , Tokyo, 1936
Lyudmila Semenyaka (left) and Nikolai Kovmir (right) performing at the 1st international ballet contest in Moscow. 1 June 1969
Alina Somova in a scene from Pyotr Tchaikovsky 's ballet Sleeping Beauty
Russian Prima ballerina Olga Spessivtseva as Odette in Swan Lake , 1934
Galina Stepanenko as Aegina from ballet Spartacus , Bolshoi Theatre
Raisa Struchkova as Aurora in a scene from Pyotr Tchaikovsky 's ballet Sleeping Beauty staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. 1 March 1954
Tamara Tchinarova in Les Présages , Sydney , between 6 December 1936 and January 1939 - photo Max Dupain
Tsiskaridze in 2017
Tamara Toumanova in 1932
Galina Ulanova, as Juliet (right), and Yury Zhdanov [ ru ] as Romeo in Sergei Prokofiev 's ballet " Romeo And Juliet ". 1 October 1954
Svetlana Zakharova and Andrey Uvarov in Swan Lake , Bolshoi Theatre , 28.10.2011
Agrippina Vaganova in " La Esmeralda ". St. Petersburg, circa 1910.
Ivan Vasiliev in an extract from Spartacus , at the October 2011 re-opening gala of the Bolshoi Theatre
Vladimir Vasilyev as Nutcracker Prince in scene from Pyotr Tchaikovsky 's ballet The Nutcracker staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR . 1 March 1966
Ekaterina Vazem costumed as Nikiya for Act II of " La Bayadère ". St. Petersburg, 1877.
Paquita pas de trois
Paquita pas de trois
Performing Paquita with Elza Vill [ ru ] and Elizaveta Gerdt , 1905
Stella Voskovetskaya
Stella Voskovetskaya
Marina Semyonova as the Princess and Aleksey Yermolayev as the Nutcracker in The Nutcracker staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre , 1939.
Svetlana Zakharova and Andrei Merkuriev in 2006