Place of BirthSaint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also Known AsAleksandr Širjaev, Aleksandr Viktorovič Širjaev , Alexander Victorovic Shiryaev
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.
