Graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy (class of Prof. Gennady Selyutsky).
Joined the Mariinsky Theatre in 1988. Became a principal in 1992.
Repertoire includes: La Silphide (James); The Nutcracker (The Prince, Pas de trois); The Sleeping Beauty (Prince Desire, the Blue Bird); Giselle (Albrecht); Raymonda (Jean de Brienne); Swan Lake (Prince Siegfried, Pas de trois); Le Corsaire (Conrad); Fokine?s: Chopiniana (Youth), The Firebird (Ivan Tsarevich); The Fountain of Bakhchisarai (Vaslav); Romeo and Juliet (Romeo); Anna Karenina (Vronsky); Balanchine?s: Jewels (Emeralds), Symphony in C, Serenade; In the Nigh; The Stone Flower (Danila); The Leaves are fading; Le Poeme de l?Extase; Carmen (Don Jose); La Baiser de la Fee (Youth); The brook (Pa-de de); La Bayadere (Solor, Pa-de-sis); Goya-Divertissement (Makho); Bejart?s Our Faust; Leningrader Symphony (Youth); Simonov?s The play of consciousness; The lilac garden.