<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_Academy_of_Choreography" id="mwPQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Moscow State Academy of Choreography">Moscow State Academy of Choreography</a> was founded<sup about="#mwt20" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_23#cite_note-2" id="mwPg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwPw">[2]</span></a></sup> under the reign of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_the_Great" id="mwQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Catherine the Great">Catherine II</a>. It is the second ballet school in Russia after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaganova_Academy_of_Russian_Ballet" id="mwQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet">Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet</a>.
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