site.btaFounder of Bulgaria's Professional Ballet Anastas Petrov Born September 1, 1899
Anastas Petrov (right) as Claude in a scene from the second act of the ballet Esmeralda on the stage of the Sofia Opera, Jan. 8, 1958 (BTA Archive Photo/Simeon Nenov)
Anastas Petrov, ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer, was born in Dobrich on September 1, 1899.
He grew up in Varna, where his family moved, and graduated from the Varna State Male High School in 1918. At the beginning of 1922 he went to Berlin,
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