A short biography of Rudolf Nuriyev, a famous dancer and choreographer

March 17, 1938 in the family of the military political instructor Hamet and the housewife Farida was born, finally, the long-awaited son - Rudolf Nuriyev. Biography of this great man began very unordinary. The fourth and last child of the couple (after the daughters of Rosa, Rosida and Lidia) was born on the train, somewhere between the station "Razdolnoe" and Irkutsk. My father was soon appointed to serve in Moscow, but the war was not given to the family in the capital. Mother and children were evacuated to Ufa, and all the children's and youthful years of the future choreographer passed in this city.

Biography of Rudolf Nureyev shows that the talent in the boy opened early. At the age of seven, he attended various choreographic groups and folk dance sections. When he was eleven, Rudolph decided: most of all he liked the classical ballet. He takes lessons from the prima of Diaghilev's ballet AI. Udaltsova, and then at EK. Voitovich - soloists of the Kirov Theater. Labor future celebrity began at the age of fifteen, entering the troupe of the Opera Theater of Ufa.

In 1955, the biography of Rudolf Nuriev is enriched by a new event - a move to Leningrad, where he enters the choreography school. The talent of the young ballet dancer did not go unnoticed: in three years he even soloed in the theater staged by him. Kirov. While still a student, he travels abroad, in particular, at the VII World Youth Festival in Vienna (1959), where he was awarded a gold medal. Then went on tour in the GDR, Egypt and Bulgaria.

In May 1961, the biography of Rudolf Nuriev changed its course dramatically. The choreographer in the troupe broke out from behind the screen of the Iron Curtain and left for Paris. But already on June 16 of the same year, without waiting for the end of the tour, he politely asked for political asylum. How long did he hesitate, choosing between a guaranteed career in his unfree country and the uncertain fate of a "defector"? We will never know ...

The reaction of the former Motherland was lightning fast: in April 1962 the Leningrad City Court delivered its "fair" verdict: seven years of imprisonment and confiscation of property. The only good news is that the verdict was pronounced in absentia. Great talent was not destined to be lost, and already on June 23, 1961, the biography of Rudolf Nureyev is replenished with new professional achievements. Ballet troupe in Paris, then London Covent Garden, where he dances with Margot Fontaine, Grand Opera, Milanese Scala, USA, Canada, Vienna Theater ... In addition, Nuriev is filmed in the movie, in particular, in the film "Valentino "(In 1977).

Only two days, having in his pocket the passport of an Austrian citizen, he visited the USSR during perestroika to meet with a dying mother (in 1987). Even then he knew that he would survive her for a little while. In 1984, he was found to have HIV in his blood. Since 1961 Nureyev has been in open communication with a dancer from Denmark Eric Brun. They made up a homosexual couple for 25 years, until Erik died. Nuriyev died of AIDS in January 1993 in Paris on the eve of Orthodox Christmas. Two years before his death, he was rehabilitated as a victim of political repression. The great choreographer and dancer Rudolf Nureyev is buried in the cemetery of Saint Genevieve near the capital of France.