Sergeev K.M., (1910-1992), dancer

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SERGEEV Konstantin Mikhailovich (1910 - 1992, St. Petersburg), dancer, ballet-master, pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1957). In 1930-61, after graduating from the Leningrad choreographic School under V.I. Ponomarev, he became a danseur for the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre. He mostly played lyric and romantic roles. He took over the role of Romeo from Romeo and Juliet after L.M. Lavrovsky, and Eugene from The Bronze Horseman after R.V. Zakharov. His other roles included Siegfried in The Swan Lake by L.I. Ivanov and M.I. Petipa, and Desiree in The Sleeping Beauty, Albert in Giselle, and Jean de Brien in Raymonda by Petipa. He was G.S. Ulanova's partner in 1930-40s, and N.M. Dudinskaya's after the war. In 1946 he became ballet-master, and in 1951-55 and 1960-70 acted as the main ballet-master of the Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre. In 1973 he became art director of the Choreographic School, which was renamed the Academy of Russian Ballet in 1991, when Sergeev became its first President. Through his career, he created new choreography for ballets by Pepita and Ivanov, staged Cinderella by S.S. Prokofiev (1946; the Stalin Prize, 1947), By the Path of Thunder by K. Karaev (1958), The Distant Planet by B.S. Maisel (1963), and Hamlet by N.P. Chervinsky (1970). Some of the dancers to take part in his ballets include Dudinskaya, G.T. Komleva, Y.V. Solovyev, V.M. Panov, K.I. Fedicheva, and A.I. Sizova. He was awarded several Stalin Prizes (1946, 1949, 1951). From 1951 until 1992 he lived at 2 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue (memorial plaque installed). He was buried at Literatorskie Mostky.

References: Богданов-Березовский В. М. Заслуженный артист РСФСР лауреат Сталинских премий Константин Михайлович Сергеев. Л., 1951; Прохорова В. В. Константин Сергеев. Л., 1974.

G. I. Dobrovolskaya. Chervinsky Nikolai P.
Dudinskaya Natalia Mikhailovna
Fedicheva Kaleria Ivanovna
Ivanov Lev Ivanovich
Karaev Kara Abulfaz ogly
Kirov (real name Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich
Komleva Gabriela Trofimovna
Lavrovsky (real name Ivanov) Leonid Mikhailovich
Maisel Boris Sergeevich
Panov (real name Schulman) Valery Matveevich
Petipa Marius Ivanovich
Ponomarev Vladimir Ivanovich
Prokofiev Sergey Sergeevich
Sergeev Konstantin Mikhailovich
Sizova Alla Ivanovna
Solovyev Yury Vladimirovich
Stalin (real name Dzhugashvili) Iosif Vissarionovich
Ulanova Galina Sergeevna
Zakharov Rostislav Vladimirovich
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Богданов-Березовский В. М. Заслуженный артист РСФСР лауреат Сталинских премий Константин Михайлович Сергеев. Л., 1951
Прохорова В. В. Константин Сергеев. Л., 1974 Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet
Mariinsky Theatre
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis