Viktor Smirnov-Golovanov

Viktor Viktorovich Smirnov (real name Smirnov-Golovanov) is a Soviet and Russian ballet dancer and theater director, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1981). He was born in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR in the family of director and screenwriter Viktor Fyodorovich Smirnov and Ekaterina Efimovna Smirnova (née Golovanova). In 1952 he graduated from the Moscow Choreographic School (class of N.I. Tarasov). In 1953-1974 he was a ballet dancer at the Bolshoi Theater. He was the author of the Russian text for the play "The Tale of the Soldier and the Devil" (1964). Even before the end of his career as an ar…