Shemakhinskaya Bayaderka Festival, Vitalia Baranowskaya, 2019

Shemakhinskaya Bayaderka Festival, Moscow, Russia, SHBDANCE The name of our Festival translates as a Dancer from Shemakha. Shemakha is an ancient city of the Shirvan (Shemakha) khanate, which in the 19th century was part of the Russian Empire and was famous for its dancers, who remained after the Persian rule. The Russian painter Prince Grigory Gagarin who lived in the Caucasus in 18401855 depicted Shemakha dancers in a series of paintings in which he called them as Bayaderki. Shemakha dancers are menti