Aleksey Yermolayev

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Nikolayevich and the family name is Yermolayev.
Marina Semyonova as the Princess and Aleksey Yermolayev as the Nutcracker in The Nutcracker, staged at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, 1939.

Aleksey Nikolayevich Yermolayev (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Ермола́ев; 23 February [O.S. 10 February] 1910 – 12 December 1975) was a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher. He played an important role in the development of Russian ballet between 1950 and 1975, and he was considered an outstanding actor.[1] People's Artist of the USSR (1970).

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