He won international acclaim for dancing the lead roles in all-time great classical ballets such as Romeo and Juliet, Swan ...

Shklyarov was at home in his apartment block at Lieutenant Schmidt Embankment, close to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, when his fall took place at around 1am. RIA Novosti, the Russian news agency ...

Iconic not only for its grand architecture, but also for the legendary performances held here, the Mariinsky Theatre ... a performance here while in St. Petersburg. Reviewers gushed about the ...

Connecticut Ballet, under the artistic direction of Brett Raphael, announced the celebrated guests artists who will appear in ...

Ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov fell from a fifth-floor balcony after taking painkillers ahead of back surgery, Russian ...

The Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, which announced the death, did not say how or where he died. By Milana Mazaeva and Alan Yuhas Vladimir Shklyarov, one of the world’s premier male ballet ...

Ballet fans and members of Russia’s cultural elite on Thursday filed past the open casket of Vladimir Shklyarov, a principal dancer at the world-famous Mariinsky Ballet in St Petersburg ...

He was 39. Shklyarov was a star dancer at the Mariinsky, the historic opera and ballet venue in Russia's imperial capital of Saint Petersburg. His funeral will be held on Thursday, the Mariinsky ...