People’s Artist of Russia (2001). Prize-winner at the International Ballet Competition in Osaka (1995). Recipient of the Benois de la Danse prize (1993) and the Spirit of Dance prize awarded by Ballet magazine (2003).

Principal Dancer with the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, which he joined in 1989 after graduating from the Moscow School of Choreography (in 1995 he also graduated from the Moscow Institute of Choreography). He performs lead roles in the ballets Giselle (Albrecht), Swan Lake (Albert), The Sleeping Beauty (Dйsirй), La Bayadиre (Solor), Don Quixote (Basilio), Raymonda (Jean de Brienne, Yuri Grigorovich’s version), Leonid Lavrovsky’s Romeo and Juliet (Romeo) and ballets by Neimeier and Balanchine. He was the first performer of the roles of Prince Siegfried (Bolshoi Theatre, Yuri Grigorovich’s second version) and the Second Movement Soloist (Symphony in C). His repertoire also includes Dreams of Japan, Charms of Mannerism and Lea, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky.