Анатолий Никифоров
Служить театру честно. Записки артиста Мариинского театра Nikiforov A. S. То serve the theater honestly. Memoirs of an artist of the Mariinsky Theater / A. S. Nikiforov. — 2nd edition, stereotyped. — Saint Petersburg: Lan: The Planet of Music, 2022. — 88 pages. — Text: direct.
The readers are invited to read a book of theatrical memoirs by A. Nikiforov. Today Anatoly Sergeevich Nikiforov is known as the director of the St. Petersburg State Children’s Ballet Theater. He devoted more than seven decades to the art of dance and theater, first, in the 1940s 1950s, as a student of the famous A.Y. Vaganova Academy, then, in the 1950s-1980s, as a ballet dancer at the Kirov (Mariinsky) Theater, and, finally, as a teacher and leader of children’s and adult ballet companies. The book contains facts from the author’s biography, a description of theater life events, of which he happened to be a witness and participant, as well as impressions of his meetings with...