Nicholas Maksimovich Tsiskaridze told about unexpected reaction Maxime Aleksandrovich Galkin after "capture" of its transfer
To Vaganova school (so the Academy was called earlier) will be 290 years. It is the oldest ballet school Russian Federation, one of the best in the world. As the rector the national actor Nicholas Maksimovich Tsiskaridze told it: to Russian Federation in the beginning created the state dancing school and only then – general education. Among Vaganovki's graduates - Pavlova Anna, Kshesinskaya Matilda, Karsavina Tamara, Nizhinsky Waclaw, Semenova Marina, Galina Ulanova, the Fairy Balabina, Natalia Dudinskaya, Ponomarev Vladimir, Baryshnikov Mikhail, Rudolph Nureev, Makarova Natalia, Zakharova Svetlana, Diana Vishneva, Lopatkina Ulyana. Grigorovich Youri...