Vasily Tikhomirov

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Vasiliy Tikhomirov as Taor in Alexander Gorsky's production of the Petipa/Pugni The Pharoah's Daughter, Moscow, 1912

Vasiliy Mikhailovich Tikhomirov (1876-1956) was a dancer (from 1895) and a choreographer (from 1913) at the Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow. His most distinguished production was the The Red Poppy (1927), with his wife Yekaterina Geltzer in the main role. He and Geltzer were buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

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