when i was still studying in a regular school, i was engaged in folk dancing in the miraz ensemble, once we went to a competition in st. petersburg, on the jury was ... a person who is engaged in the recruitment of children to the academy dance of boris eifman, and my first teacher decided to show me to one of the jury members who is recruiting children to the eifman academy, and he looked at me and said that i had a chance to get in. after finishing the fifth grade in a regular school, i went to the fifth grade again, but this time to the boris eifman dance academy. and when i... entered the academy, i didn’t quite understand what i was doing and who i would be, well, i studied classical music, i tried everywhere there, but i never thought about who i would become and that dancing could be a profession, with at some point, a classical dance teacher started showing us, well, already in the older classes, male variations, excerpts from ballets, and there i saw ivan vasiliev, leonid... sarafanov and at that moment i thought that i wanted to be like them, i had tried hard in class before, b