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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, choreographers and musicians. Pierina Legnani (1863-1923) was an Italian ballerina, considered Prima Ballerina Assoluta with the Tsar's Imperial Ballet at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. She was the first ballerina to perform 32 fouettes en tornant in Russia in the title role of the ballet <i>Cinderella</i> on 17 December 1893 (other Italian ballerinas had performed this feat elsewhere in Europe). Legnani had trained at the school of La Scala, Milan, and developed into a ballerina who was both a virtuoso and a dramatic performer. 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