Addresses of George Balanchine in St. Petersburg - Petrograd

Abstract

George Balanchine Melitonovich (Balanchine) born January 22, 1904 in St. Petersburg and lived there twenty years. Petersburg mentality, the algorithm is that great city, remained to live in it forever. All his neoclassic grows out of architecture’s code Petersburg. Mariinsky Ballet (and not only «Ballet Imperial») bloomed in the grand style of his choreography. Actually Balanchine has remembered about three different cities - St. Petersburg, keeping the echo of steps Tchaikovsky, Petropolis of Silver Age and the Petrograd of revolution. Petersburg’s geography of the first twenty years of life devoted to the great choreographer article created on a material report.