Kseniya Pokrovskaya

In 1957 French student Pierre Durand comes to Moscow to do an internship at Moscow State University. Here he meets ballerina Kira Galkina and photographer Valera Uspenskiy. With them he discovers the cultural side of Moscow — not just the traditional one, but the underground one as well. During his year in Russia’s capital Pierre lives an entirely different life than what he’s used to. But the internship and the experience of the Soviet people’s way of life are not the only things Pierre is after. He’s searching for his father, White officer Tatishchev, who was arrested in the 1930s.

Sergei Polunin and Diana Vishneva in Giselle. Original perfomance April 20, 2014 at STANMUS. (This recording is from the TV premiere broadcast on January 8th, 2024 on the Russian Culture Channel). Ballet by Adolphe Adam. Production by the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after K.S. Stanislavsky and VI.I Nemirovich-Danchenko. Conductor Anton Grishanin. (Russia, 2014).