History
Bolshoi is the oldest theatrical school in Moscow, founded as an orphanage by order of Catherine II in 1763. It wasn't until 1773 that the first dance classes were taught at the home. Other names the school is known by are: The Bolshoi Academy, The Bolshoi Ballet School, The Moscow Choreographic Institute, The Moscow Ballet School, The Bolshoi Moscow Ballet School and The Bolshoi Theatre Ballet School.
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- 1773—1777 — Filippo Beccari
- 1778—1783 — Leopold Paradise
- 1783—1805 — Cosimo Morelli (choreographer)
- 1806—1808 — Jean Lamiral
- 1808—1811 — Dominique Lefèvre
- 1811—1839 — Adam Glushkovskiy
- 1839—1846 — Konstantin Bordanov (ru: Богданов, Константин Федорович)
- 1846—1850 — Feodor Manokhin (ru: Манохин, Фёдор Николаевич)
- 1851—1857 — ?
- 1858—1869 — Манохин, Фёдор Николаевич
- 1869—1872 — Pierre Frédéric Malavergne
- 1872—1874 — Gustave Legat
- 1874—1883 — Sergey Petrovich Sokolov (ru: Соколов, Сергей Петрович)
- 1883—1898 — Aleksey Bogdanov (ru: Богданов, Алексей Николаевич)
- 1898—1902 — Vasiliy Geltser (ru: Гельцер, Василий Федорович)
- 1902—1907 — Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky
- 1907—1917 — Vasiliy Tikhomirov (ru: Тихомиров, Василий Дмитриевич)
- 1917—1924 — Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky
- 1924 — 1931 — ?
- 1931—1936 — Viktor Aleksandrovich Semeonov (ru: Семёнов, Виктор Александрович)
- 1937—1941 — Pyotr Gusev
- 1942—1945 — Nikolay Ivanovich Tarasov (ru: Тарасов, Николай Иванович)
- 1945—1947 — Rostislav Zakharov
- 1948—1953 — Leonid Lavrovskiy
- 1953—1954 — Nikolay Ivanovich Tarasov
- 1954—1958 — Michail Gabovich (ru: Габович, Михаил Маркович)
- 1959—1964 — Yuriy Kondratov (ru: Кондратов, Юрий Григорьевич)
- 1960—2001 — Sofia Golovkina (ru: Головкина, Софья Николаевна)
- 1964—1967 — Leonid Lavrovskiy
- 1968—1972 — Aleksey Yermolayev
- 1973—1987 — Maksim Martirosian (ru: Мартиросян, Максим Саакович)
- 1988—1993 — Igor Uksusnikov (ru: Уксусников, Игорь Валентинович)
- 2001—2002 — Boris Akimov (ru: Акимов, Борис Борисович)
- 2002 — Marina Leonova (ru: Леонова, Марина Константиновна)
- Boris Akimov
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