Yuri Gregorovich, a legendary dancer dancer Bolsoy Theater

Yuri GregorovichLegendary dance designer from stage Polisho From MoscowWhich also directed, He died on Monday at the age of 98Russian agencies, Tass and Ria Novosti.

The prominent Soviet and Russian designer Yuri Gregorovich died at the age of 98, “he announced his assistant to state agency TASS on Monday.

Gregorovich broke out at the famous Bolshoi Theater from 1964 to 1994Under the Soviet Union and after its disintegration.

With the death of the legendary dance designer, the entire era goes, “he regretted the Mariusque theater in Saint Petersburg, in northwestern Russia, in a statement, celebrating its” artistic heritage. “

Press service for Bolshói, which was contacted by Agence France -Presse, did not comment on the information immediately.

Gregorovich was born in 1927 in Leningrad, the current Saint Petersburg, the nephew of George Rosay, the great dancer of the Mariuski theater in the former Russian imperial capital and Russian ballet of Serge Diagilif.

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He graduated in Leningrad

Gregorovich graduated from the Leningrad D and Solid School and becomes a single player at the Kirov Theater in that city in the late 1940s.

The dancer arrives in celebrities in 1957, after his innovative launch of the ballet “Flower of Stone”Based on a series of popular stories from Urls.

Gregorovich then served for three decades as a balloon outlet.

Throughout his career, the audience announced the dancers like Natalia Besmerstenova, who will become his wife, or the famous couple formed by Ekaterina Maximo and Vladimir Vasiliev.

After his resignation from Bolshói in 1995, Gregorovich created his own company in KrasnodarIn the south of the country.

However, he returned to the famous Moscow Theater, becoming the main dance designer of the ballet company in 2008.

Gregorovich put many Russian ballet classifications during his career. Among them “Hazelnut crusher” De Chaikovsky, “Spartacus” From Khaturian, “Evan Al -Rahib” With music from Prokófiev, or also “Golden Age” From Shostakóvich.

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