Viktor Smirnov-Golovanov
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Biography
Viktor Viktorovich Smirnov (real name Smirnov-Golovanov) is a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer and theater director, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1981). He was born in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR in the family of director and screenwriter Viktor Fyodorovich Smirnov and Ekaterina Efimovna Smirnova (née Golovanova). In 1952 he graduated from the Moscow Choreographic School (class of N.I. Tarasov). In 1953-1974 he was a ballet dancer at the Bolshoi Theater. He was the author of the Russian text for the play "The Tale of the Soldier and the Devil" (1964). Even before the end of his career as an artist, he began to engage in theater directing and dance production. In 1968-1982 he worked in a creative union with Natalia Ryzhenko. In 1976-1988 he worked as the chief choreographer of the Odessa Opera and Ballet Theatre. In November 1988, together with Lyudmila Fyodorovna Nerubashchenko, he founded the first non-governmental ballet troupe in the USSR, the Viktor Smirnov-Golovanov Classical Ballet Theatre (known abroad as the Moscow City Ballet), and was its director and artistic director until the end of his life.
Known For
A Russian version of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him
The Prisoner of If Castle
The action takes place in a circus, where a girl dreams of performing in a real performance, but she is met by different people who personify good, evil, and envy. The performance opens miraculously. A lovely ballerina appears above the circus arena on a hanging trapeze, like a white bird...