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Legat, Gustaw (EN)

Biography

Legat Gustaw Iwanowicz, *20 January (1 February) 1837 St. Petersburg, †20 August (1 September) 1895 St. Petersburg, Russian dancer, teacher. In 1857, he graduated from the tsarist ballet school in St. Petersburg and performed at the Mariinsky Theater until 1865 and in 1885–86; he also collaborated with the ballet of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow as a dancer, choreographer and teacher.