Alexander Shiryaev

Alexander Shiryaev. Actor: Komediantka. He was born in 10 September 1867 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (Russia). He was a Russian ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer, founder of character dance in Russian ballet who served at the Mariinsky Theatre, and also a pioneering animation director who is credited with invention of stop motion animation. At the age of nine Alexander entered the Saint Petersburg Imperial Theatrical School where he studied...