RUSSIAN HAMLET. Boris Eifman ballet
Choreographer Boris Eifman in the ballet (created in 1999) addresses to destiny of Tsarevitch Pavel I. It doesn't dramatize a well-known plot from Russian history – race for power between Ekaterina and her son - and with psychological peculiar to it, tries to comprehend and analyse philosophically how the power deforms human relations and destroys the person, transforming the power propertied into the semi-madman. B.Eifman's word : The fate of Tsarevich Paul, so reminicent of Hamlet’s fate (Paul in his lifetime was known as “The Russian Hamlet”), is shrouded in mystery and mystical omens. Born with a naturally radiant outlook and having received a brilliant education, Paul was grooming himself to serve his country but, as a result of his father’s murder, his mother’s inability to love him – she was afraid of her son and heir – and of the atmosphere of constant surveillance, intrigue, fear and humilation, the young prince began to suffer from hallucinati