Nikolai Legat Gustavovich

Born in 1869. He made his debut in the Mariinsky Theater in 1888, has participated since then as the protagonist in almost all the pieces of the ballet repertoire. Beginning in 1904, wrote and delivered a number of ballets ( "Fairy Doll", together with his brother, Sergei, "The Seasons", "Scarlet Flower"), resumed ballet "Talisman", it belongs to the same set of plug numbers included in the old ballets. As choreographer, . Legat is the successor of Marius Petipa, . advocate and expert on the so-called "classical dance", as a performer, . differs rather grace and flair style, . than a virtuoso brilliance, as a dance teacher, . had a great influence on all outstanding modern ballet dancers,
. He left the scene of the battalion in 1914