Alexander Shiryaev
Personal information
- Known for
- Directing
- Known credits
- 8
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- September 10, 1867
- Died
- April 25, 1941
- Place of birth
- Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
- Also known as
- Aleksandr ŠirjaevAleksandr Viktorovič Širjaev Alexander Victorovic ShiryaevAlexandr Victorovic ShiryaevАлександр Викторович ШиряевAleksandr Shiryayev
Biography
Russian ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer, founder of character dance in Russian ballet who served at the Mariinsky Theatre. Shiryaev was also a pioneering animation director who is credited with invention of stop motion animation.
