Died ballet master of the Bolshoi theatre Nikolai Fadeyechev

At the age of 87 years died the national actor of the USSR, the ballet master-tutor of the Bolshoi theatre Nikolai Fadeyechev, reports TASS.

the press service of the Bolshoi theatre said that Fadeyechev 67 died in the hospital from heart failure. On the farewell ceremony will be announced later.

Nikolai Fadeyechev was born in 1933 in Moscow. After graduating from the Moscow ballet school in 1952, was adopted in the ballet troupe of the Bolshoi theater, which danced twenty-five years.

In 1956, took part in the first foreign tour of the Bolshoi theater in London, where he danced with Galina Ulanova in “Giselle”. On account of his many performances in which he danced with tonics the Bolshoi theatre.