Nikolai Borisovich Fadeyechev (27 January 193323 June 2020) was a

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and

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n ballet dancer, teacher, and répétiteur of the

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. He was awarded

People's Artist of the USSR People's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to artists of the Soviet Union. The term is confusingly used to translate two Russian language titles: Народный арти ...

in 1976.

Biography

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Fadeyechev was born 27 January 1933 in

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

. In 1952, he graduated from the Moscow Ballet School, where he had studied with Alexander Rudenko, and joined the

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, where he performed many principal roles. He made his international debut in London in 1956 with the ballet ''

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'', dancing alongside

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. He was a regular partner with

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, Marina Kondratyeva,

Natalia Bessmertnova Natalia Igorevna Bessmertnova () was a Soviet prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet and a People's Artist of the USSR (1976). Life Natalia Bessmertnova was born in Moscow in 1941 and trained at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography from 1 ...

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and

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, Andrey Uvarov,

Sergei Filin Sergei Yurevitch Filin (; born 27 October 1970) is a Russian ballet dancer and the former artistic director of the Bolshoi Theater from 2011 through 2016. He is currently the Director of the Young Artists Ballet Program at the Bolshoi Theatre. ...

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and Artem Ovcharenko.

Personal life

He was married to Irina Kholina, a ballerina, and had two sons: , a choreographer for the Bolshoi, and Aleksandr. On June 23, 2020, Fadeyechev died of heart failure in Moscow, at 87 years of age.

Repertoire

* ''

Swan Lake ''Swan Lake'' ( rus, Лебеди́ное о́зеро, r=Lebedínoje ózero, p=lʲɪbʲɪˈdʲinəjə ˈozʲɪrə, links=no ), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. Despite its initial failu ...

'': Prince Siegfried * '' The Sleeping Beauty'': Prince Désiré, Bluebird * ''

Nutcracker Suite ''The Nutcracker'' (, ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a '; ) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination featuring a Nutcracker doll. The plot is a ...

'': Prince, Mouse King * ''

'': Albrecht * ''Raimonda'': Jean de Brienne, Bernard, grand pas * ''

Les Sylphides () is a short, non-narrative '' ballet blanc'' to piano music by Frédéric Chopin, selected and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov. The ballet, described as a "romantic reverie","Ballet Theater", until 1955. A compact disk of ABT's product ...

'' (called ''Chopiniana'' in the Bolshoi production): Soloist * ''

Romeo and Juliet ''The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'', often shortened to ''Romeo and Juliet'', is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare about the romance between two young Italians from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's ...

'': Romeo * '' The Fountain of Bakhchisarai'': Vatslav * ''

Laurencia ''Laurencia'' is a genus of red algae that grow in temperate and tropical shore areas, in Littoral zone, littoral to Littoral zone#Sublittoral zone, sublittoral habitats, at depths up to . Description ''Laurencia'' species have a thallus that ...

'': Frondoso, Youth * '' Gayane'': Armen * ''

The Stone Flower "The Stone Flower" ( rus, Каменный цветок, Kamennyj tsvetok, p=ˈkamʲɪnːɨj tsvʲɪˈtok), also known as "The Flower of Stone", is a folk tale (also known as ''skaz'') of the Ural region of Russia collected and reworked by Pav ...

'': Danila (first interpreter at the Bolshoi Theater), Opal * ''

The Firebird ''The Firebird'' (; ) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine, who c ...

'' (''L’oiseau de feu''): Prince Ivan (first interpreter at the Bolshoi Theater) * ''

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'': Harmodius (first interpreter) * '' Carmen Suite'': José (first interpreter) * ''

Anna Karenina ''Anna Karenina'' ( rus, Анна Каренина, p=ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Tolstoy called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial in ...

'': Karenin (first interpreter) * ''Asel'': Ilyas (first interpreter) * ''Prelude'': Soloist (first interpreter) * ''Class Concert'': Soloist

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