The soloist is Olga Melnikova. Vaganova Academy School in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) with Nureyev's former Kirov partner, Ninel Kurgapkina, teaching the upcoming graduate students. 6 of these girls were promoted to the Kirov ballet. The girl to the right of Vaganova's picture is Anna Polikarpova, the star in the Kirov Stone Flower video
Part 2 of Act 3 KIrov Sleeping Beauty in London, July 1997. This part has the Blue Bird pas de deux with Svetlana Zakharova as Princess Florine. Asylmuratova and Zelensky were the leads in this performance.
