Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

17

Gender

Male

Birthday

1940-04-18 (85 years old)

Place of Birth

Moscow, USSR [now Russia]

Also Known As

Vladimir Viktorovitch Vassiliev

Владимир Викторович Васильев

Владимир Васильев

Vladimir Vasiliev

Biography

Vladimir Viktorovich Vasiliev (born April 18, 1940) is a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer from Moscow, Russia. He was a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet and its director from 1995 to 2000. He was best known for his role of Spartacus and his powerful leaps and turns. Vladimir Vasiliev was named "God of the dance" and is regarded as a classical dancer on the same level as Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov. At the height of their careers, Vladimir Vasiliev and Ekaterina Maximova were the golden couple of Russian ballet.