Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Valery Lantratov Moscow-born ballet dancer and general director of the Russian National Ballet Foundation. (Born April 24, 1958). A graduate of the Moscow Academic Choreographic College, Lantratov was selected as a first soloist with the State Musical Theater K. Stanislavski and V. Nemirovich-Danchenko (Moscow Stanislavski Ballet). With the theater, he danced principal rôles in such ballets as Don Quixote, Coppélia, Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet.