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Sunday 4th of March 1877

147 years ago



The ballet 'Swan Lake' by 37-year-old composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is performed for the first time by the Bolshoi Ballet in Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Central Federal District, Russia.

The Russian ballerina Anna Sobeshchanskaya for whom the role of Odette was intended was pulled from the première performance when a governing official in Moscow complained about her, stating that she had accepted several pieces of expensive jewelry from him only to then marry a fellow danseur and sell the pieces for cash.