Peter the Great

Peter Pestov's - List of Students

If you are a former student of Mr. Peter Pestov, please email yagp.office@gmail.com
to be included on this list.






  • Javier Amo Gonzalez - Demi-soloist: Bayrisches Staatsballett; Stuttgart Ballet
  • Jukka Aromaa - Principal Dancer, Finnish National Ballet, New York City Ballet; Director, Finnish National Ballet School
  • Joshua Andino-Nieto - Dancer, free lance; Ballet de Carmen Roche
  • Özkan Ayik - Dancer, Stuttgart Ballet
  • Taras Bilenko - Dancer, Staatsballett Berlin
  • Matthew Bledsoe - Company Manager, Leipziger Ballett; Zürcher Ballett
  • Alexander Bogatyrev - Artistic Director, Bolshoi Ballet
  • Andrei Bolotin - Leading Soloist, Bolshoi Ballet
  • Vladislav Bubnov - Principal Dancer, English National Ballet, Scottish Ballet
  • Clément Bugnon - Dancer, Ballett Chemnitz
  • Yuri Burlaka - Artistic Director, Bolshoi Ballet
  • Deniz Cakir - Dancer Ballett Hof; Aalto Ballett Theater Essen
  • Sergio Carecci - Dancer, Ballett Dortmund; Mainfrankentheater Würzburg
  • Matthew Crockard-Villa - Dancer, Stuttgart Ballet
  • Mariusz Czochrowski - Dancer, Theater Hof; Stuttgart Ballet
  • Tomas Danhel - Dancer, Stuttgart Ballet
  • Antonio Di Carmine - Soloist, Ballett Hof; Landsbühne Sachsen; Theater Görlitz
  • Andrey Dokukin - Dancer, American Ballet Theatre
  • Jon Drake - Principal Dancer, Oregon Ballet Theatre
  • Alvaro Dule - Dancer, Zürcher Ballett
  • Alexei Fadeyechev - Artistic Director, Bolshoi Ballet
  • Yorai Feinberg - Dancer, Wiener Staatsoper; Leipziger Ballett
  • Filipp Gadar - Dancer, Bolshoi Ballet; Charleston Ballet; Sarasota Ballet
  • Emmanuel Garcia Gazquez - Dancer, Wiener Staatsoper; Staatsoper Budapest
  • Ferdinand Geier - Dancer, Semperoper Ballett Dresden
  • Sebastian Geiger - Dancer, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Antwerp; Stuttgart Ballet
  • Viacheslav Gordeyev - Artistic Director, Bolshoi Ballet; Director, Russian State Ballet
  • Manuel Gross - Dancer, ThüringenBallett; Leipziger Ballett; Magdeburger Ballett; Ballett Chemnitz
  • Jonathan Drake Hathorne - Dancer, USA; Deutsche Oper am Rhein
  • Lei He - Dancer, Leipziger Ballett
  • Mikel Jauregui Garcia - Soloist, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Antwerp; Wiener Staatsoper
  • Mikhail Kaniskin - Principal Dancer, Berlin State Opera Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet
  • Matthias Kass - Dancer, Ballett Magdeburg
  • Mugen Kazama Demi - Soloist, Tulsa Ballet, USA
  • Sergei Khejlik - Principal Dancer, Los Angeles Ballet; Dancer, Cirque de Soleil
  • Alexander Kozadayev - Dancer, USA
  • Ilja Kozadayev - Soloist, Houston Ballet
  • Dmitri Kulev - Artistic Director, Dmitri Kulev Classical Ballet Academy; Principal Dancer, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
  • Anton Kunikiev - Dancer, Cirque de Soileil
  • Ilya Kuznetsov - Faculty member, Bolshoi Ballet Academy
  • Norbert Lukaszewski - Dancer, Stuttgart Ballet
  • Vladimir Malakhov - Principal Dancer, Moscow Classical Ballet, Vienna State Opera Ballet, American Ballet Theatre; Artistic Director, Berlin State Opera Ballet
  • Evan McKie - Soloist, Stuttgart Ballet
  • Andrei Morariu - Dancer, Ballett Dortmund; Stuttgart Ballet
  • Leonid Nikonov - Principal Dancer, Bolshoi Ballet; Faculty member, La Scala ballet Academy
  • Jorge Nozal - Dancer, Nederlands Dans Theater, Stuttgart Ballet
  • Ludovico Pace - Dancer, Stuttgart Ballet
  • Fabio Palombo - Dancer, Leipziger Ballett; Staatsballett Berlin
  • Vitaly Petrov - Dancer, ThüringenBallett; Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
  • Andrey Pisaryev - Dancer, Kiev, Ukraine
  • Yuri Polkovodtsev - Dancer, Ballett Dortmund; Soloist: Städtebundtheater Hof
  • Yuri Possokhov - Principal Dancer, San Francisco Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet; Resident Choreographer, San Francisco Ballet
  • Maxtime Quiroga - Dancer, Stuttgart Ballet
  • Sascha Radetsky - Principal Dancer, Dutch National Ballet; Soloist, American Ballet Theater
  • Alexei Ratmansky - Artist in Residence, American Ballet Theater; Artistic Director, Bolshoi Ballet; Principal Dancer, Royal Danish Ballet; Dancer, Royal Winnipeg Ballet; Dancer, Royal Danish Ballet
  • César Rubio Sancho - Dancer, Ballet de l’Opera de Nice; Aalto Ballett Theater Essen
  • David Russo - Dancer, TanzTheater München; Staatstheater Saarbrücken
  • Alisher Saburov - Associate Artistic Director, Classical Ballet Theatre; Principal Dancer, Kremlin Ballet, Moscow Festival Ballet
  • Momo-Peter Sanno - Dancer, free lance; Musical Hamburg
  • Gennadi Saveliev - Soloist, American Ballet Theater; Founder, Youth America Grand Prix
  • Viktor Sherbakov - Dancer, Kiev, Ukraine; Stuttgart Ballet
  • Oleksandr Shpak - Dancer, Staatsballett Berlin
  • Mikhail Soloviev - Dancer, Stuttgart Ballet
  • Sergey Soloviev - Faculty member, Conservatoire National Superieur de Danse de Paris
  • Gökce Sönmemis - Dancer, Vereinigte Städtische Bühnen Krefeld und Mönchengladbach; Staatsoper Hannover
  • Dmitri Suslov - Dancer, BalletMet Columbus
  • Mikhail Tchoupakov - Faculty member University of Utah; Dancer, Bolshoi Ballet
  • Ulian Topor - Dancer, Staatsballett Berlin
  • Nikolai Tsiskaridze - Leading Prinicipal Dancer, Bolshoi Ballet
  • Elvis Val Louro - Dancer
  • Davit Vardanyan - Dancer, Dresden Semperoper Ballett; Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landestheater
  • Alexander Vetrov - Co-Artistic Director, Metropolitan Classical Ballet; Leading Principal Dancer, Bolshoi Ballet
  • Demis Volpi - Dancer, Stuttgart Ballet
  • Sebastian Wagner - Dancer, Ballett Kiel; Würzburger Ballett; TanzTheater München
  • Yaosheng Weng - Dancer, Stuttgart Ballet
  • Nan Wu - Dancer
  • Harunaga Yamakawa - Dancer, Colorado Ballet; Nowa Ballet Company; National Ballet of Portugal; Companhia National de Bailado; Oper Halle
  • Mehmet Yumak - Dancer, Staatsballett Berlin; Vereinigte Städtische Bühnen Krefeld und Mönchengladbach; Staatsoper Hannover
  • Zahari Zahariev - Dancer, Landestheater Eisenach
  • Alexander Zaitsev - Principal Dancer, Stuttgart Ballet
  • Arman Zazyan - Demi Soloist, Stuttgart Ballet



  • In addition to these, over 300 Bolshoi Ballet dancers have trained with Mr. Pestov at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy.






























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