1802 |
Birth of Cesare Pugni |
1818 |
Birth of Marius Petipa |
1823-34 |
Pugni at the Scala, Milan |
1840-43 |
Pugni at Paris Opera |
1843 |
Birth of Ekaterina Ksenofontovna Shiryaeva (Shiryaev’s mother). |
1843-50 |
Pugni at Her Majesty’s Theatre, London |
1845 |
Grand Pas de Quatre at Her Majesty’s Theatre (composed by Pugni) |
1846 |
autumn: Pugni marries Mary Ann (Marion) Linton at St Pancras, London |
1848 |
summer: birth of Alberto Pugni. Other children: Viktor/Hector, Nicholas, Paul, Cesar, Elizabeth, and two more girls. Alberto was the father of Ivan Puni (1894-1956, born Kuokkala, Finland). |
1850 |
Pugni appointed ballet composer to St Petersburg Imperial Theatres. |
1861 |
Pugni appointed to teach at the St Petersburg Conservatory |
1862 |
Ekaterina Shiryaeva joins the corps de ballet |
1867 |
September 10. Birth of Alexander Viktorovich Shiryaev as “illegitimate” son of Ekaterina Shiryaev and Viktor Pugni (solo flautist with orchestra of Imperial Theatre, St Petersburg). |
1870 |
February 2. Death of Cesare Pugni |
1876 |
Shiryaev enrols in Imperial Ballet School |
1877-82 |
Shiryaev appears on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Drama Theatre |
1882-85 |
Shiryaev makes some appearances with the Imperial Ballet |
1885 |
Shiryaev graduates from the Imperial Ballet School; for graduation performance dances role ofHussar Lucien d’Hervilly in Paquita; joins the Mariinsky company |
1889 |
Death of Viktor Pugni |
1891 |
Shiryaev teaches the class of character dance at the Ballet School. |
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Natalia Matveeva graduates from ballet school |
1892 |
Shiryaev marries Matveeva |
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November 6. Birth of daughter Alexandra (Shura) |
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Premiere of Nutcracker: Shiryaev creates The Fool’s Dance |
1895 |
Appointed dance répétiteur for ballet and opera |
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Role of Ivanushka in the revival of The Little Humpbacked Horse |
1896 |
Death of Ekaterina Shiryaeva |
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Appointed Senior Tutor of the men’s section at the Ballet School; Buffoon’s Dance for the revival of Mlada |
1898 |
Resigns from duties as Senior Tutor |
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La Fée Carabosse in The Sleeping Beauty (originally created in 1895 by Cecchetti) |
1899c |
Quasimodo in Esmeralda (originally created by Alfred Bekefi in 1898). |
1900c |
Choreography of Matelot dance incorporated in Graziella |
1902 |
Tour to Monte Carlo: The Côte d’Azur, or The Birth of Monte Carlo |
1902-3 |
Roles at Mariinsky include Cassandre in Les Millions d’Harlequin; Dr Coppelius in Coppelia; Marcelline in La Fille mal gardée |
1903 |
Shiryaev produces The Haarlem Tulip; Giselle with Pavlova; The Naiad and the Fisherman with Pavlova. Appointed maitre de ballet |
1904 |
Birth of Son, Andrei |
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Ruslan and Liudmila with the lezginka newly choreographed by Shiryeav |
1904 |
Gala performance for Shiryaev for 20 years’ service |
1905 |
Shiryaev revives Petipa’s Midsummer Night’s Dream for a charity performance; Leaves the Mariinsky on completion of service (12 May). |
1906-07 |
Appearances in private performances of the Mariinsky in Fokine’s ballets |
1907 |
Shiryaev and Matveeva join Anna Pavlova, Michel Fokine and Adolphe Bolm on tour to Hermitage Theatre, Moscow. |
1908 |
Baltic tour: Helsingfors, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Prague, Berlin, Riga. |
1909 |
Second tour to Berlin |
1910 |
Tour to Vienna |
1911-12 |
British tour with Pavlova. Palace Theatre, London (April 1911); Newcastle (November 1911); Chelsea (December 1911); Blackpool (September 1912); Birmingham (October 1912); Newcastle (November 1912); Liverpool (November 1912); Eastbourne; Shiryaev in Charing Cross Hospital with a broken fibula |
1911 |
June 20. Death of daughter Alexandra |
1912 |
Tour to Berlin (with Pavlova) |
1913 |
Shiryaev leaves Pavlova company |
1918 |
Death of Natalia Matveeva in Petrozavodsk |
1919 |
Head of Choreographic Department at the Alexandrinsky Theatre |
1920 |
Restoration of ballets at former Mariinsky Theatre; with Fedor Lopukhov stages the first Soviet production of The Nutcracker |
1921 |
Merited Artist of the Republic |
1922 |
Rehearsal master at the former Mariinsky (Kirov) Theatre and teacher of dance perfection |
1923 |
Hero of Labour |
1923 |
Teacher of character dance at the State Academic Drama Studio |
1921 |
Jubilee performance to celebrate 35 years of stage performances |
1924 |
Marriage to the actress of the Mikhailov Theatre, R. Pomerantseva, who succumbs within a year to schizophrenia |
1926 |
Professor of character dance at the Ballet School. |
1938 |
Publication of Foundations of Character Dance, co-authored with A.V.Lopukhov and A.I.Bocharov; last stage appearance at a gala for the bi-centenary of the Ballet School. |
1941 |
Memoirs completed, but typeset destroyed during the siege |
1941 |
April 25. Shiryaev dies in Leningrad |
1941 |
May 22: memorial performance at the Ballet School |
1964 |
Death of Shiryaev’s son Andrei, who had married first Tamara Viktorovna, and later lived in a civic marriage with Anna Bazhaeva |
1964 |
Daniil Saveliev retrieves Shiryaev’s films, paper films and camera from the apartment that Anna Bazhaeva has to vacate. |
1995 |
Viktor Bocharov acquires Shiryaev’s archive from Saveliev |
2004 |
Bocharov makes A BELATED PREMIERE, a documentary which shows the restored 35mm footage |