us, well, already in the older classes, male variations, excerpts from ballets, and there i saw ivan vasilievleonid sarafanov, and at that moment i thought that i wanted to be like them, i had tried in class before, but then i realized that i needed to start working additionally in the hall, in general, that's when i realized that i wanted to be like them and also... surprise people, how surprised i was by these dancers, as i know from stories, my parents didn't really want to let me go, but they understood that i had a predisposition to dancing and to everything for a long time, and that they would have to take such a step and let me live alone in st. petersburg, yes, it was probably hard for them to let me go, but thanks to the fact that i got into the academy, in principle, that's why i do ballet, nothing else but... i didn't do it, and i always liked it, and i always loved to dance, i didn't even have other thoughts, that i would do something else, trying and working on myself at the academy, led to the fact that i was allowed to participate in the competition, and this was another seriou