Viktoria Tereshkina
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Viktoria Tereshkina | |
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| Born | May 31, 1983 |
| Occupation | ballet dancer |
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| Current group | Mariinsky Ballet |
Viktoria Valerievna Tereshkina (Russian: Викто́рия Вале́рьевна Терёшкина; born 31 May 1983) is a Russian ballet dancer, who performs as a principal dancer with the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg. People's Artist of Russia (2018). Laureate of the highest theater award of St. Petersburg "Golden Soffit" (2005, 2006), and Laureate of the IX International Ballet Competition "Arabesque" (Perm, 2006).
Tereshkina was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia where her father was a gymnastics teacher. From the age of four she was trained in artistic gymnastics in which she performed increasingly well. However, when she reached the age of 10, her parents decided her prospects for an extended career would be better in ballet. As a result, she was sent to the ballet school in Krasnoyarsk. When she was 16, she took part in a ballet festival in Saint Petersburg. She was noticed by Igor Belsky who recommended she should join the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet where he was artistic director. After training for five years in Krasnoyarsk, she therefore spent a further three years in Saint Petersburg in the class of Marina Vassilieva.[1]
Tereshkina has one daughter named Milada born in 2013.[2]
Tereshkina was married to Artem Shpilevsky (former soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet). She is now married to Roman Belyakov, a soloist with the Mariinsky Ballet.[3]
