The Nutcracker ballet at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia

Russia. Moscow. Bolshoi Theatre soloist Nikolai Maksimovich Tsiskaridze as the Nutcracker Prince and Bolshoi Theatre prima ballerina Marianna Albertovna Ryzhkina as Marie in a scene from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker at an evening dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the creative work and the 70th anniversary of the birth of ballet master and choreographer Yuri Nikolaevich Grigorovich, which took place at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre of Russia. Alexander Kosinets/TASS