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Both worked for the Russian Imperial Ballet. Nicolai became an important teacher and after leaving the Imperial Ballet in 1914 went on to teach dance in Russia, Paris and London, where he eventually settled.  Sergei, regarded as the greater choreographer and perceived as the natural successor to Pavel Gerdt as the Imperial Ballet's Premier danseur noble, died by suicide, aged 30. \r\n\r\nThe brothers worked together to produce caricatures of fellow dancers and choreographers.  Here Olga Levenson is shown as a snowflake in the corps de ballet for the scene 'Land of Snow' in Act 1 <i>The Nutcracker</i>. Her tutu, decorated with white pompoms is typical of costumes worn in the popular 'snow ballets' of the late nineteenth century inspired by the costumes created for Henri Justamant's <i>Snow Ballet</i> in Jacques Offenbach's <i>La Voyage dans la lune</i> (<i>A Trip to the Moon</i>). 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