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Pavel Andreyevich Gerdt, also known as Paul Gerdt (near St. Peterburg, Russia
Russia

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, 22 November 1844 — Vamaloki, Finland
Finland

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 12 August 1917), was the Premier Danseur Noble of the Imperial Ballet, the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre
Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre

The Saint Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre was a Theater in Saint Petersburg....
, and the Mariinsky Theatre
Mariinsky Theatre

The Mariinsky Theatre is a historic theatre of opera and ballet in St Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov received their premieres....
 for 56 years, making his debut in 1860, and retiring in 1916.






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Pavel Andreyevich Gerdt, also known as Paul Gerdt (near St. Peterburg, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, 22 November 1844 — Vamaloki, Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
 12 August 1917), was the Premier Danseur Noble of the Imperial Ballet, the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre
Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre

The Saint Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre was a Theater in Saint Petersburg....
, and the Mariinsky Theatre
Mariinsky Theatre

The Mariinsky Theatre is a historic theatre of opera and ballet in St Petersburg, Russia. Opened in 1860, it became the preeminent music theatre of late 19th century Russia, where many of the stage masterpieces of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov received their premieres....
 for 56 years, making his debut in 1860, and retiring in 1916. His daughter Elisaveta Gerdt was also a prominent ballerina and teacher.

Gerdt studied under Alexander Pimenov, a pupil of the legendary Charles Didelot
Charles Didelot

Charles-Louis Didelot was a French dancer and choreographer. The son of Charles Didelot, the dance maestro of the King of Sweden, he studied dance with his father, who were instructor in dance at the Swedish Opera, and dubuted as dancer in the theatre of Bollhuset in Stockholm 1786....
, and with Jean Petipa, Marius Petipa
Marius Petipa

Marius Ivanovich Petipa was a ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer. Marius Petipa is cited nearly unanimously by the most noted artists of the classical ballet to be the most influential balletmaster and choreographer that has ever lived ....
's father, a master of the old pantomime and a student of Auguste Vestris. He was known as the Blue Cavalier of the St. Petersburg stage, creating the roles of nearly every lead male character throughout the latter half of the 19th century, among them, Prince Desirč in Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty

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, and Prince Coqueluche in The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker Op. 71, is a fairy tale-ballet in two acts, three scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891?92. Alexandre Dumas, p?re's adaptation of the story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" by E....
. Nobody in the theatre knew his real age and, when asked, he would always say that he was 23.

Among his pupils at the Imperial Ballet School were Michel Fokine
Michel Fokine

Michel Fokine was a groundbreaking Russian choreography and dance.He was born in Saint Petersburg, as son of a prosperous, middle-class merchant and at the age of 9, he was accepted into the Saint Petersburg Vaganova Ballet Academy....
, Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav Nijinsky

Vaslav Nijinsky was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent. Nijinsky was one of the most gifted male dancers in history, and he grew to be celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations....
, Tamara Karsavina
Tamara Karsavina

Tamara Platonovna Karsavina was a famous Russian ballerina who was most noted as a Principal Artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev....
, George Balanchine
George Balanchine

George Balanchine , born Giorgi Melitonis dze Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to Georgians parents, was one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, a pioneer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet: his work created modern ballet, based on his deep knowledge of classical for...
, and Anna Pavlova, to whom he taught the soaring leap of Marie Taglioni
Marie Taglioni

Marie Taglioni was a famous Italian ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of dance....
 and Carlotta Grisi
Carlotta Grisi

File:Giselle -Carlotta Grisi -1841 -2.jpgCarlotta Grisi, real name Caronne Adele Josephine Marie Grisi was an Italy ballet dancer. She was born on June 28, 1819 in Visinada, Istria and died on May 20, 1899 in Saint-Jean, a district of Geneva, Switzerland....
.