When was the composer of the ballet Raymonda, director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory  ?
Raymonda Variations Raymonda Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to excerpts from the first act of Glazunov's "Raymonda" (1895–97). The premiere took place on 7 December 1961 at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, under the title "Valses et Variations". Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova had mounted a full-length production of "Raymonda" for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1946.
Miron Polyakin Miron Borisovich Polyakin (Russian: Мирон Борисович Полякин ; (February 12, 1895 in Cherkasy - May 21, 1941 in Moscow) was a legendary Imperial Russian and Soviet violinist and pedagogue, one of the best known disciples of the famous Leopold Auer. Between 1917-1926 he toured many countries of the world, and in 1922 gave his New York debut. Upon his return to the Soviet Union, he undertook the professorship position at the Leningrad Conservatory (1928–1936) and then the Moscow Conservatory (1936–1941).