 Therefore, the likelihood is that it was actually Petipa himself who interpolated the "Grand Pas des toréadors" in "Don Quixote".Gorsky's 1902 revival was not well received in St Petersburg, causing shock among both Petipa and the balletomanes, who claimed that the production was a mutilation of Petipa's original masterpiece by one of his former students and dancers.The ballet lived on in Russia well after the revolution of 1917, whereas many other ballets ceased to be performed into the Soviet period.