What is Nikolai Fadeyechev?
[[File:Maya Plisetskaya and Nikolai Fadeyechev 1964.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Fadeyechev with [[Maya Plisetskaya]], 1964]] '''Nikolai Borisovich Fadeyechev''' ({{lang-ru|Николай Борисович Фадеечев}}, 27 January 1933 – 23 June 2020) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] and [[Russia|Russian]] ballet dancer and educator. He was honored with the [[People's Artist of the USSR]] in 1976. Fadeyechev was born in [[Moscow]]. He retired from ballet dancing in 1977 and later became a ballet educator. He was known for his works with the [[Bolshoi Theatre]]. He danced alongside some of the company's great ballerinas, including [[Galina Ulanova]] in ''[[Giselle]]'' and ''[[Les Sylphides]]'', and was a regular partner with [[Maya Plisetskaya]], [[Raisa Struchkova]], [[Nina Timofeeva]], [[:ru:Кондратьева, Марина Викторовна|Marina Kondratyeva]], [[Natalia Bessmertnova]], [[Ekaterina Maximova]] and [[Ludmila Semenyaka]]. Fadeyechev died of [[heart failure]] on 23 June 2020 in Moscow, aged 87.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2020-06-23-died-people-s-artist-of-the-ussr-nikolai-fadeechev.Byg8DWUyCU.html |title=Died People's Artist of the USSR Nikolai Fadeechev |access-date=2020-06-24 |archive-date=2020-06-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624183750/https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2020-06-23-died-people-s-artist-of-the-ussr-nikolai-fadeechev.Byg8DWUyCU.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.bolshoi.ru/en/persons/ballet/434/ Fadeyechev's page on the Bolshoi Theatre web site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627165324/https://www.bolshoi.ru/en/persons/ballet/434/ |date=2019-06-27 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Fadeyechev, Nikolai}} [[Category:1933 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Ballet dancers]] [[Category:Russian educators]] [[Category:Entertainers from Moscow]] {{bio-stub}}