Throwback Thursday and Nicholas Zverev
Nicolas Zverev was born in Moscow in 1888. He trained there
and by 1912 was a member of the Kozlov Ballet. This company toured to London
and while Zverev was there he heard that Diaghilev and his Ballet Russes were also
there. He auditioned for them and was hired, performing with them until 1926.
According to the website Andros
on Ballet, http://michaelminn.net/andros/biographies/zverev_nicholas/
Nicolas Zverev looked very much like Nijinsky, and sometimes
doubled for him in Ballet Russe performances. Nijinsky’s name still appeared on
the program, and apparently audiences never realized a switch had been made and
they were not actually witnessing a performance by Nijinsky.
From 1930 to 1936 Zverev was the director of the Ballet of the Opera of Kaunas, but in
1936 he assisted in the reorganization of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. He remained with them as a character
dancer and ballet master until 1945.
Later he became a professor in several countries: Belgium, Switzerland, and France; and was also
ballet master of the Teatro Colon in
Buenos Aires from 1957-1960.
Nicolas Zverev died in June 1965.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets:
Ballet Secret #92:
“Nicholas Zverev
was a dancer with the Ballet Russe who sometimes doubled as Nijinsky.”
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