Mikhail Lavrovsky

His father, Leonid Lavrovsky, was a well-known choreographer, while his mother, Elena Chikvaidze, was a ballerina.

He was trained at the Moscow Choreographic School where his teachers were Olga Khodot and Nikolai Tarasov [ru], and graduated from there in 1961.

Three years later, Yury Grigorovich, a well-known choreographer and teacher, arrived at the Bolshoi.

The same year, he was awarded the State Prize and was appointed as an artistic director of the Paliashvili Theatre from 1983 to 1985.

Prior to that, in 1980, he became a ballet master after graduating from the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, where he served till 1988.