Ballet classic art that has been the favorite of princes, kings and emperors for more than three centuries, not in vain some of the big companies like the Royal Ballet of London, the Danish Royal Ballet, the Dutch Royal Ballet and many others carry in
its name the imprint of its ancestry, although the Ballet was born in Italy and developed in France was in the Russian Empire where it obtained its great splendor, the Russian Tsars famous for centuries for their opulent life and waste of treasures did not spare effort for have the best ballet in the world, so they undertook the task inviting from France the best choreographers of the time,
Marius Petipa to mention only one the largest, also imported pedagogues,
architects, sculptors, painters to build lavish theaters and the result could not be better, the Russians have never spared any expense for these things even to this day, they have just completed the most expensive Olympic games of the history, until today those lavish theaters and the glory of the Russian Ballet have endured. Saint Petersburg, the Venice of the North, the same one that was called Petrograd,
Leningrad and now again Saint Petersburg, which for many travelers is the most
beautiful city in the world, is the headquarters of the Marinsky Ballet, better known in the West by its name in the era Soviet Kirov, prides itself on being the guardian of the finest tradition of the Classical Ballet, its director says that in hundreds of years have not changed a bit the original choreographies, names like: