Mikhail Lavrovsky
Mikhail Leonidovich Lavrovsky (; born 29 October 1941) is a Soviet and Russian former principal dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet. Biography Lavrovsky was born in Tbilisi to a family of respected dancers. His father, Leonid Lavrovsky, was a well-known Choreography, choreographer, while his mother, Elena Chikvaidze, was a Ballet dancer, ballerina. He was trained at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography, Moscow Choreographic School where his teachers were Olga Khodot and , and graduated from there in 1961. Three years later, Yury Grigorovich, a well-known choreographer and teacher, arrived at the Bolshoi. He gave Lavrovsky the role of the prince in ''The Nutcracker'', and later on Lavrovsky appeared in such roles as Ferkhad in ''Legend of Love (ballet), Legend of Love'', as well as in ''Spartacus (ballet), Spartacus'' for which he won the Lenin Prize. In 1977 he was promoted to principal dancer and became a choreographer at the Tbilisi Ballet. The same year, he was awarded the USSR St ...
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