This is the outside of the building and a little history.


In 1891, the prominent choreographer Marius Petipa commissioned Peter Tchaikovsky to write the music for The Nutcracker Ballet. Petipa developed the scenario of this ballet, but when he fell ill, it was left to Lev Ivanov to finish the choreography. In 1892, the first showing of the Nutcracker took place at the Mariinsky Theatre in St-Petersburg Russia, home of the Kirov Ballet.