the music was written for this number, our mutual friend, my friend evgeny glebov and nikolai began toehearse, he went to moscow with this number as a solo number, took part in the competition of ballet dancers in the all-union competition and received a diploma for this role. only the jury renamed the communist into a patriotic one. well, this is the role of the modern, so to speak, revolutionary has been developed. nikolai played the role of the ancient revolutionary spartacus . aram khachaturian, who arrived at the premiere nikolai krasovsky was simply amazed. he said that spartak had already been staged, but everywhere he played this role, an artist of milans, not dancing, not singing, just such a powerful man who took heroic poses there, and krasovsky danced it all, staged a wonderful ballet. choreographer, when the main ballet raw material of our theater is also my comrade katarskelean and this role, as it were, became the main one in the entire ballet career of nikolai filippovich and even the monument on his grave is the defeated, but not defeated spartak the accompanist's daug