Pyotr Andreyevich Gusev (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Гусев) was a ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer. He was born on 29. December, 1904 in St. Petersburg. He studied at the St. Petersburg School of Choreography under Alexandr Shiryayev [ru]. He was a friend of George Balanchine and joined his Young Ballet group. He graduated in 1924 and joined the Kirov Ballet. He married Olga Mungalova, a ballet dancer at Kriov. In 1935 he left the Kirov and joined the Bolshoy in Moscow as a soloist. He was dancing with such ballerinas as Galina Ulanova and Maya Plisetskaya.
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29 December 1904 St. Petersburg, Russia
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Died |
30 March 1987 (aged 82) Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) Russia
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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