Nikolai Legat

Nikolai Gustavovich Legat (Russian: Никола́й Густа́вович Лега́т) (30 December 1869, in Moscow – 24 January 1937, in London) was a ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher.

Like his four siblings, the young Nikolai was accepted into the Imperial Ballet School at the age of ten, and during his years there, he counted Marius Petipa, Pavel Gerdt and Christian Johansson among his teachers.

[1] Legat's wife, Nadine Nicolaeva, was a ballerina of the Imperial and State theatres of Moscow and St.

[citation needed] She choreographed dances based on the Movements Exercises of Gurdjieff and later founded the Legat School of Ballet in Kent.

In 1938, Ouspensky and his followers acquired Colet House in London, from Nadine Legat, where they established the Historico-Psychological Society.