Born in Kazan, Russia, Novikoff studied and graduated from the Imperial Ballet School aka Mariinsky.
In 1923, he immigrated to the United States, where he continued teaching ballet until his death.
Moving westwards to Seattle, he founded the Novikoff School of Russian-American Ballet in the early 1950s and received the Governor's Heritage Award (of the state of Washington) in 1989.
Novikoff followed in the footsteps of his lifetime inspiration Michael Forkin in pure Classic Russian Artistry.
[2] Leona Wood, the founder of Aman Folk Ensemble, Richard Ingram, one of the choreographers of Royal Ballet and Mark Morris the director of Mark Morris Company, Erricka Shebass, a former principal dancer of Oakland Ballet Company.