15 Jun 2005
Russian Dolls
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
The Tsarina's Slippers
Live from ROH 2009, TV relay 1/12/2009.
Top Billed Cast
Olga Gouriakova Oxana
Vsevolod Grivnov Vakula
Larissa Diadkova Solokha
Vladimir Matorin Chub
Maxim Mikhailov The Devil
Вячеслав Войнаровский The Schoolmaster
Alexander Vassiliev Pan Golova
Sergei Leiferkus His Highness
Olga Sabadoch Odarka
Changham Lim Wood Goblin
Andrew McNair Echo
John Upperton Panas
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