He danced with the former Mariinsky Theatre, performing such roles as Siegfried in Swan Lake, Jean de Brienne in Raymonda, and the lead in Chopiniana.
The ballet told the story of a serf theater, and was choreographed to music by Anton Rubinstein and Adolphe Adam.
In 1944, largely owing to the success of Romeo and Juliet, Lavrovsky was made the head ballet master for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
At the Bolshoi, Lavrovsky staged the premiere production of Prokofiev's The Tale of the Stone Flower, a ballet based on a short story by Pavel Bazhov.
[5] In the early 1960s, Lavrovsky's style of choreography came under attack for its realism and lack of dance from a group of young choreographers, including the rising star Yury Grigorovich.