sentences:  Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker and annual North American tours evolved out of the 1989-92 “Glasnost Festival” created by theatrical producer Akiva Talmi.The International Glasnost Festival Tours, starting in 1988, featured soloists from the Bolshoi Ballet, Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet, National Ballet of Czechoslovakia and more companies of Russian Federation countries.The 1988 to 1991 tours included including Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the Stanislavsky Moscow Ballet Tatiana Chernobrovkina and partner Alexei Malykin of the Bolshoi Ballet.