Premiere of The Queen of Spades at the Bolshoi. The world premiere of the ballet, which was written by Yuri Krasavin, based on the opera of the same name by Tchaikovsky, and staged by Yuri Possokhov, the hero of the modern era of the Bolshoi Ballet, practically our constant guest choreographer in recent years, all of whose performances were warmly received by balletomanes: both amateurs and professionals.