Alexander Bogatyrev - Bolshoi ballet 1(2)

Feature May 2009. Part 1 of 2. Alexander Yurievich Bogatyrev was born in 1949 in Tallinn, Soviet Union. He attended the local ballet academy before moving to Moscow, to the Bolshoi’s school. He graduated into the Bolshoi in 1968 and gradually acquired major roles in the classical and modern repertory. His first big part was Vaslav in The Fountain of Bakhchisarai; he went on to Siegfried in Swan Lake, Prince Desire in The Sleeping Beauty, Albrecht in Giselle, and the poet in Chopiniana. When Grigorovich