Background
Viktorina Kriger was born on March 28, 1893 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, in a family of actors. She had a younger sister who was married to Yevgeny Petrosyan, a comedian.
Viktorina Vladimirovna Kriger
Honored Artist of the RSFSR
Order of the Badge of Honour
First Degree Stalin Prize
Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR
Moscow Choreography School
Honored Artist of the RSFSR
Order of the Badge of Honour
First Degree Stalin Prize
Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR
Moscow
the Bolshoi Theatre
Vladimir Kriger
Viktorina Petrosyants
Vasily Tikhomirov
Public figure art critic ballet dancer
Viktorina Kriger was born on March 28, 1893 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, in a family of actors. She had a younger sister who was married to Yevgeny Petrosyan, a comedian.
Viltorina Kriger graduated from Moscow Choreography School (she studied under Vasily Tikhomirov).
After Viktorina Kriger graduated from Moscow Choreography School, she performed at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow (1910-1941). She performed solo roles in Swan Lake (Princess Odette, Odile) and Sleeping Beauty (fairy Carabosse) composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, in The Red Poppy (Taï-Choa) by Reinhold Moritzevich Glière, in Cinderella (Step-mother) by Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev and other ballets.
Viktorina Vladimirovna toured around the country and abroad. She performed in the Voronezh Bolshoi Soviet Theatre (November 1926, May 1930), the House of the Red Army (January, March 1934), and the Pervomaysky Closed Theatre (September 1937).
Since 1926, Viktorina Kriger wrote articles about ballet that were later published. She was the author of "My notes" (1930). She organized and directed the Moscow Art Ballet troupe (1929) which later became part of the Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre (1933) and the Stanislavski Music Theatre (1941).
Viktorina Vladimirovna Kriger won several State Prizes. In 1927, she became Honored Artist of the RSFSR. In 1937 she was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honour. In 1946, Viktorina Kriger won the First Degree Stalin Prize (for the performance of the Stepmother party in the ballet Cinderella by S. S. Prokofiev). In 1951, she became Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR.
