Personal Info

  • Known For

    Acting

  • Known Credits

    5

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    April 18, 1940 ( 84 years old )

  • Place of Birth

    Moscow, USSR [now Russia]

  • Also Known As

    Vladimir Viktorovitch Vassiliev

    Владимир Викторович Васильев

    Владимир Васильев

Vladimir Vasiliev

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.