We are sad to announce the death of former ballet company soloist (1959-1982) Yevgeny Vasilievich Shcherbakov on 23 November at the age of seventy-four following a serious illness.
Yevgeny Shcherbakov’s entire stage career was linked with the Kirov Theatre. Joining the company following his graduation from the Leningrad Vaganova School of Dance in 1959, Yevgeny Vasilievich Shcherbakov featured in numerous ballets that were created in the 1960s-70s. He danced in Leonid Yakobson’s ballets Twelve, The Bedbug, Land of Miracles and Choreographic Miniatures (The Dream), and he performed lead roles in Shurale (Ali-Batyr) and Spartacus (Spartacus). Yevgeny Shcherbakov’s repertoire also included lead roles in Yuri Grigorovich’s The Stone Flower (Danila) and The Legend of Love (Ferkhad), Igor Belsky’s Leningrad Symphony (the Youth) and Natalia Kasatkina and Vladimir Vasiliev’s Creation of the World (Archangel, God). In addition to roles in contemporary ballets at that time, Shcherbakov remained in audiences’ minds as the noble Jean de Brienne in the classical Raymonda. Having ended his career as a performer, Yevgeny Shcherbakov dedicated his life to coaching; he worked at the theatre in Ufa and with Boris Eifman’s company, while from 1990 to the start of the 21st century he passed on his rich experience and the traditions of the Leningrad school to the next generation of artists, teaching at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.
Yevgeny Shcherbakov’s funeral service and burial will take place on 26 November at 12:00 in the church at Smolensk Cemetery.
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