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questions


Q1 - WHERE CAN I BUY DVDs OF BALLETS ?

Q2 - WHEN DID RUDOLF NUREYEV DANCE AT THE BOLSHOI ?

Q3 - WHAT WAS RUDOLF NUREYEV'S HEIGHT ?

Q4 - WHAT WAS HIS LAST BALLET ?

Q5 - WHEN DID NUREYEV STOP DANCING ?

Q6 - COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME THE NAMES OF HIS GREAT PARTNERS ?

Q7 - WHAT CAUSED RUDOLF NUREYEV'S DEATH AND WHEN DID HE DIE ?

Q8 - WHICH BALLET WAS GIVENT THE GREATEST NUMBER OF CURTAIN CALLS ?

Q9 - I WOULD LIKE TO READ A BIOGRAPHY TO KNOW MORE ABOUT NUREYEV, COULD YOU ADVISE ME ?

Q10 - COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHEN THE JULIE KAVANAGH'S BIOGRAPHY OF RUDOLF NUREYEV WILL BE READY ?

Q11 - WHEN DID RUDOLF NUREYEV DEFECT FROM THE KIROV BALLET AND AT WHICH AIRPORT ?

Q12 - IS IT TRUE THAT RUDOLF NUREYEV WAS BORN ON A TRAIN ?

Q13 - RUDOLF IS BURIED IN THE RUSSIAN CEMETERY IN SAINTE GENEVIEVE DES BOIS. WAS HE ORTHODOX ?





Q1 - WHERE CAN I BUY DVDs OF BALLETS ?
Unfortunately purchasing DVDs or books is not possible on our website.

You can buy them in specialized stores or directly on the web on amazon.com


Q2 - WHEN DID RUDOLF NUREYEV DANCE AT THE BOLSHOI ?
Contrary to what you might think, Nureyev never danced on stage at the Bolshoi Opera!
It was at the Kirov theatre in Saint Petersburg that Nureyev made his 1958 debut.


Q3 - WHAT WAS RUDOLF NUREYEV'S HEIGHT ?
His height was 5 feet 8 inches tall according to his last passport.

Q4 - WHAT WAS HIS LAST BALLET ?
La Bayadère - production for the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris in 1992

Q5 - WHEN DID NUREYEV STOP DANCING ?
His last role was the Fairy Carabosse in the Sleeping Beauty at the Staatsoper in Berlin in 1992.

Q6 - COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME THE NAMES OF HIS GREAT PARTNERS ?
Natalia Dudinskaya
Olga Moïsseïva
Ninel Kourgapina
Alla Ossipenko
Eva Evdokimova
Margot Fonteyn
Merle Park
Patricia Ruanne
Lynn Seymour
Natalia Makarova
Noëlla Pontois
Ghislaine Thesmar
Carolyn Carlson
Florence Clerc
Elisabeth Platel
Sylvie Guillem
Elisabeth Maurin
Monique Loudières
Claude de Vulpian
Isabelle Guérin
Zizi Jeanmaire
Carla Fracci
Veronika Tennant
Karen Kain


Q7 - WHAT CAUSED RUDOLF NUREYEV'S DEATH AND WHEN DID HE DIE ?
Rudolf Nureyev died of AIDS related complications at the age of 54 in Paris on January, 6th 1993.

Q8 - WHICH BALLET WAS GIVENT THE GREATEST NUMBER OF CURTAIN CALLS ?
In Vienna, in October 1964, Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev received 89 curtain calls at the end of “Swan Lake” - a record for curtain calls which remains unequalled to this day, and which is still in the Guinness Book of World Records!



Q9 - I WOULD LIKE TO READ A BIOGRAPHY TO KNOW MORE ABOUT NUREYEV, COULD YOU ADVISE ME ?
The fullest and latest biography is : Nureyev by Julie Kavanagh

Q10 - COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME WHEN THE JULIE KAVANAGH'S BIOGRAPHY OF RUDOLF NUREYEV WILL BE READY ?
Julie Kavanagh's book is now released in Britain and in the USA.

Q11 - WHEN DID RUDOLF NUREYEV DEFECT FROM THE KIROV BALLET AND AT WHICH AIRPORT ?
16th June 1961 - Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Kirov Ballet at Le Bourget Airport in France while he was on the verge of flying back to USSR.



Q12 - IS IT TRUE THAT RUDOLF NUREYEV WAS BORN ON A TRAIN ?
Yes, it’s true! Travelling by rail with her daughters, Rudolf’s mother was on her way to join her husband when, somewhere near to the Baikal Lake, her son was born prematurely on board the Trans-Siberian train. His official birth date is the 17th March 1938, but he was probably born one or two days earlier.

Q13 - RUDOLF IS BURIED IN THE RUSSIAN CEMETERY IN SAINTE GENEVIEVE DES BOIS. WAS HE ORTHODOX ?
It’s true that Rudolf Nureyev asked to be buried in Sainte Geneviève des Bois cemetery, the final resting place for numerous Russians [see our section: Russian cemetery]. But Rudolf Nureyev was not orthodox which is why you will not find a single religious symbol on his grave. His parents were Muslim Tatars living in Ufa, capital of Bashkir.
>see the "grave" section