Nikolai Borisovich Fadeyechev (27 January 1933 – 23 June 2020) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer and teacher. He was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1976.

Biography

Fadeyechev was born 27 January 1933 in Moscow, and was a retired dancer and a teacher and répétiteur of the Bolshoi Ballet. In 1952 he graduated from the Moscow Ballet School, where he had studied with Alexander Rudenko, and joined the Bolshoi Theatre, where he performed many principal roles. He made his international debut in London in 1956 with the ballet Giselle, dancing alongside Galina Ulanova. He was a regular partner with Maya Plisetskaya, Raisa Struchkova, Nina Timofeeva, Marina Kondratyeva, Natalia Bessmertnova, Ekaterina Maximova and Ludmila Semenyaka. After retiring from the stage in 1977, he became one of the most important teachers and répétiteurs of the Bolshoi Theatre. His students have included Nikolay Tsiskaridze, Andrey Uvarov, Sergei Filin, Ruslan Skvortsov and Artem Ovcharenko.

Personal life

He was married to Irina Kholina, a ballerina, and had two sons: Aleksei Fadeyechev, a choreographer for the Bolshoi, and Aleksandr. On June 23, 2020, Fadeyechev died of heart failure in Moscow, at 87 years of age.

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