Надежда Павлова

Born in Cheboksary, Chuvashskaya ASSR, RSFSR, USSR. Ballerina. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (10/21/1977). People's Artist of the Chuvashia ASSR (1980). People's Artist of the RSFSR (04/28/1982). People's Artist of the USSR (12/13/1984). Born into a large family, her parents are ethnic Chuvash. At the age of 7, she began studying in a choreographic circle at the House of Pioneers. In 1966, she was noticed by a commission from the Perm Choreographic School, which came to Cheboksary in search of gifted children, and Nadya was offered to study in Perm. For seven years, from the 2nd grade until graduation, Nadya Pavlova studied with Lyudmila Pavlovna Sakharova, whose methodology combined the Moscow and Leningrad schools of classical dance with new trends that emerged in the late 1960s. After graduating from college in 1974, she became a soloist at the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Tchaikovsky. Since September 1975, she has been a soloist at the Bolshoi Theater. Her constant partner throughout this decade has been Vyacheslav Gordeyev, who became her husband. She studies daily in Messerer's class and masters roles under the guidance of Semenova. From 1992 to 1994, Nade...