Cradle of Russian Ballet Studies

Abstract

The article covers the events of the early twentieth century related to the opening of the faculty of theater history at the Zubovskiy Institute and the conduct of scientific research in it in the field of choreography and ballet art. Merits are noted for professional ballet criticism and domestic ballet studies by scientific staff of the Zubovskiy Institute of different years: A.A. Gvozdev, Yu. I. Slonimsky, I. I. Sollertinsky and some other leading Russian theater and ballet historians.