Igor Moiseyev was a renowned Russian dancer and choreographer who was born in 1906 in Kiev and passed away in 2007 in Moscow. He was inspired to dance after enrolling at age 14 in a ballet studio run by a prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre. He was accepted into the choreographic college at the Bolshoi Theatre after impressing the director with his skills. Throughout his career, Moiseyev created many popular dances for the Moiseyev Dance Company, including Pictures of the Past and The Partisan, establishing himself as a national treasure in Russia before passing away at the age of 101.

1. THE PERSON WHO INSPIRED ME

2. IGOR MOISEYEV (21) JANUARY 1906, KIEV-NOVEMBER 2, 2007, MOSCOW], THE RUSSIAN
DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER. PEOPLE'S ARTIST OF THE USSR (1953). IGOR MOISEYEV SAID:
"MY FATHER WAS A LAWYER. HE BELONGED TO AN IMPOVERISHED NOBLE FAMILY, THE
INHERITANCE FROM HIS GRANDFATHER, WHO WAS A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. SUPERBLY
OWNING FRENCH, THE FATHER OFTEN VISITED PARIS, WHERE HE FELT REALLY GOOD. THERE HE
MET HIS FUTURE WIFE, MY MOTHER. SHE WAS A MILLINER. AFTER THEIR MEETING MY PARENTS
WENT TO RUSSIA: HER FATHER WAS A LAW PRACTICE IN KIEV.

3. WHEN HE WAS 14, IGOR MOISEYEV ENROLLED IN A BALLET STUDIO TO A PRIMA BALLERINA OF
THE “BOLSHOI THEATRE” VERA ILYINICHA MASOLOVA. EDUCATION IN THE STUDIO WAS PAID
TEN RUBLES AND TWO LOGS OF WOOD PER MONTH. "IN TWO OR THREE MONTHS ILINICHNA
VERA TOOK ME BY THE HAND AND LED CHOREOGRAPHIC COLLEGE IN THE BOLSHOI THEATER.
DIRECTOR OF COLLEGE TOOK US TO WHOM IT IS, TO MY SURPRISE, SAID:" THIS BOY SHOULD
LEARN FROM YOU. "I REMEMBER THE DIRECTOR REPLIED THAT I WILL NEED TO PASS AN EXAM.
AT THIS MY TEACHER WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT REMARKED, “HE WILL STAND IT."
FINALLY EXAMS TOOK ONLY THREE PEOPLE, INCLUDING IGOR MOISEYEV. HE WAS IN A CLASS
CHIEF CHOREOGRAPHER OF THE BOLSHOI THEATRE ALEXANDER GORSKY.

4. As he told Moiseyev, his
departure from the theatre he
does not regret. "I am always
disposed to all and always in the
interest of the ensemble. For this
reason, for example, I do not
regret that broke with the Bolshoi
Theatre. There's a very large
dependence on various
circumstances that are far from
art - politics, the bosses. And I
was in the groupmy own boss, "said in an interview with
Moiseyev.

5. HE HAS MADE A LOT OF DIFERRENT
DANCES AND THEY ARE STILL
POPULAR IN RUSSIA. FOR EXAMPLE,
"Pictures of the Past" (1937),
"Collective Farm Street" (1938),
"Maritime Suite" (1943), the suite
"Joc" (1949), "The Partisan" (1950),
"Sly Mocanu" (1952), "Snowstorm
"(1965)," Road to the Dance ","
Buffoons "(both 1970);.

6. WHO OUTSTANDING MAN, BEAUTIFUL DANCER
AND A VERY GOOD MAN WOULD HAVE TURNED
107 YEARS OLD ...