Rudolf Nureyev
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Rudolf Nureyev
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Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer. Nureyev is widely regarded as the greatest male ballet dancer of his generation. Nureyev was born on a Trans-Siberian train near Irkutsk, Siberia, Soviet Union, to a Tatar family. He began his early career with the company that in the Soviet era was called the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad. He defected from the Soviet Union to the West in 1961, despite KGB efforts to stop him. This was the first defection of a Soviet artis
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Soviet-born ballet dancer (1938–1993)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Nureyev
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2003-10-05T12:47:10Z
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2024-09-03T06:44:57Z
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