Vladimir Shklyarov
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Vladimir Andreyevich Shklyarov was a Russian ballet dancer, who ranked as a principal dancer at the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg. He had also been a guest principal with the Bavarian State Bal
Shklyarov in 2017
Shklyarov and Maria Shirinkina at the Ravello Festival in The Sleeping Beauty, 2013
Sergei Polunin
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Sergei Vladimirovich Polunin is a Russian ballet dancer, actor and model. He has Russian and Serbian citizenships, and has "always regarded himself as Russian". In 2025, he was stripped of his Ukraini
Vladimir Shklyarov
…in 2017, but continued to dance as guests in Munich. In 2017, Shklyarov joined The Royal Ballet in London as a guest principal after he filled in for Sergei Polunin, who withdrew at the last minute, in Frederick Ashton's Marguerite and Armand. Shklyarov married Maria Shirinkina, a first soloist at the Mariinsky…
Polunin in 2013
Polunin with Russian president Vladimir Putin and future students of the Sevastopol Academy of Choreography, 13 August 2019
Polunin in Richard MacDonald's studio