Levashev, Vladimir Alexandrovich

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Levashev was born on January 16, 1923 in Moscow. In 1941 he graduated from the Moscow Academy of Choreography of the Bolshoi Theater of the USSR (teacher P. A. Gusev ).

In 1941-1978 he was a ballet dancer of the Bolshoi Theater . He starred in the film adaptations of the productions of the Bolshoi Theater "Fedra" (1972) and "Giselle" (1975). He was one of the leading dancers of the Bolshoi ballet troupe; his manner was distinguished by the expressiveness, sharpness and accuracy of the stage design, plasticity, musicality, and great mimic talent. In 1978-1985 he served as a tutor-tutor.

He was elected a deputy of the Moscow City and District Councils of Workers' Deputies. He lived in 1st Smolensky Lane (building 9).

He died in 2005 in Moscow, was buried at the Vvedensky cemetery (7th section).

Family

• Father - Alexander Gerasimovich Levashev (1901-1970).
• Mother - Natalya Ivanovna Levasheva (1898-1983).

• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (10.31.1958).
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1965).
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1976).
• Order of the Badge of Honor (1951).
• Order of the Badge of Honor (1959).

First Artist

• 1955 - "Shurale" F. Yarullina (ballet. L.V. Jacobson) - Shurale
• 1959 - “Stone Flower” (ballet. Yu. N. Grigorovich) - Severyan
• 1964 - “Leili and Majnun” (ballet. K. Ya. Goleizovsky) - Ibn-Salom
• 1966 - The Nutcracker (ballet. Yu. N. Grigorovich) - Drosselmeyer
• 1972 - " Anna Karenina " by Rodion Shchedrin - Tverskaya
• 1973 - “ Sleeping Beauty ” by P. I. Tchaikovsky (ballet. Yu. N. Grigorovich) - fairy Karabos
• 1975 - "Ivan the Terrible" (ballet. Yu. N. Grigorovich) - Boyarin

Other parties

• "Vain Precaution" by Jean Doberval - Nikez
• "Bakhchisarai Fountain" Asafiev - Nurali
• Romeo and Juliet by S. S. Prokofiev - Tybalt, Mercutio and Lorenzo
• "The Night Before Christmas" - Damn
• "Stork" - Ostrich and Rooster
• "Peter and the Wolf" - Wolf
• Reingold Glier's “ Red Poppy ” - Li Shangfu and Ma Lichen;
• Mirandolina Vasilenko- Ripafratta
• " Giselle " Adana - Forester
• Laurencia - Commander
• “ Swan Lake ” by P. I. Tchaikovsky - Evil Genius
• The Little Humpbacked Horse - Tsar
• "Firebird" - Kashchei
• The Legend of Love by Melikov - Vizier
• Don Quixote by Ludwig Minkus - Don Quixote
• "Spartak" Khachaturian (ballet. I. A. Moiseev) - The dying gladiator

1. 1954 - Romeo and Juliet - Tybalt's friend
2. 1957 - Swan Lake - an evil genius

• Lavrovsky L., Youth of the ballet, "Theater", 1946, No. 1-2.
• Lvov-Anokhin B., V. Levashev, “Theater”, 1970, No. 12.
• Maykov P., V. Levashov, “Theater”, 1976, d.3.
• Theatrical Encyclopedia. Volume 6 / Chap. ed. P.A. Markov - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1967 .-- 1136 stb. with ill., 8 l. ill.

• Vladimir Alexandrovich Levashev (neopr.) . Encyclopedia Russian Ballet. Date of treatment October 1, 2017.
• Vladimir Alexandrovich Levashev (neopr.) . Theater and its history. Date of treatment October 1, 2017.
• Vladimir Alexandrovich Levashev. The Bolshoi Theater of the USSR 1970-1971.1971-1972 (Part 119) (neopr.) . The Bolshoi Theatre. Date of treatment October 1, 2017.