Farukh Ruzimatov

Based on the story of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, a ballet by Yevgeny Rostovsky, choreographed by Vladimir Romannovsky.

Russia's renowned Kirov Ballet honors innovative dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky in this quartet of live performances at Paris' Théâtre du Châtelet. The Kirov dancers present "Sheherazade," "Le Spectre de la Rose," "The Polovtsian Dances" and "The Firebird," ballets closely associated with Nijinsky. Mikhail Fokine, chief choreographer to ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev, choreographed the dances in these gala productions.

An art film about the life of Soviet creatives in the late 1980s.

Live performance from Kirov, now known as Mariinsky. Recorded in April 1989.