Vladimir Shklyarov, a world-renowned Russian ballet star, has died after falling from the fifth floor of a building on ...

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the death of ballet dancer Vladimir Shklyarov. Reports from Russian media say he fell from a 5th ...

Diana Vishneva, a fellow principal dancer at the ... war messages from other figures in the ballet world. Shklyarov was married to Maria Shirinkina, a fellow dancer at the Mariinsky.

Renowned Russian ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov is dead after falling from the 5th-floor balcony of a building Saturday in St. Petersburg, Russia.

He was married to a fellow dancer in his company ... Another Mariinsky dancer, Diana Vishneva, wrote, "You were the favourite partner … My beautiful Romeo, my brave Prince in Cinderella." ...