Adolph Bolm was a ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher. In 1903, Bolm completed his studies at the ballet department of the St. Petersburg Theatre School, where he trained in the class of Platon Karsavin. Shortly thereafter, he was admitted to the company of the Mariinsky Theatre, where his first solo appearance was the role of the Bluebird in the ballet "The Sleeping Beauty". In 1908, Bolm served as Anna Pavlova's partner during her first foreign tour. Around the same time, together with several soloists of the St. Petersburg Imperial Ballet, he took part in a tour of Finland organized by the local musician and impresario Edvard Fazer. From 1909 onward, the artist participated in Sergei Diaghilev's Parisian "Russian Seasons", and after Diaghilev founded the permanent company "Ballets Russes" in 1911, Bolm left the imperial stage for good. His repertoire included leading solo roles, primarily in ballets by Michel Fokine: the Tsarevich in "The Firebird", the Archer in the "Polovtsian Dances", the Wayfarer in "Thamar", Amoun in "Cléopâtre", Pierrot in "Carnaval", and the Shah in "Scheherazade". Beginning in 1912, he also served as the company's rehearsal director, and a year later he made his debut as a choreographer, staging the dances for the opera "Khovanshchina". After the tour in the United States, he decided to stay. In 1917, he founded a small company called "Ballet Intime", consisting of twelve dancers. After its dissolution, Bolm concentrated on choreographic work in various American theatres. In 1918–1919, he worked at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where he staged the first American revivals of Fokine's ballets "The Firebird" and "Petrushka". He was also responsible for the first productions of Stravinsky's "Apollon Musagète" and Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf". From 1922, Bolm headed the ballet company of the Chicago Opera, and from 1924 to 1927 he directed his own ensemble, Allied Arts, within which he created a number of new productions. In 1926, his memoirs "A Dancer's Days" were published. From 1933 to 1936, he led the San Francisco Opera Ballet and founded a ballet school attached to the theatre. In parallel, Bolm collaborated with Hollywood as a choreographer. In the final years of his life, he settled there permanently and taught choreography based on the method of Enrico Cecchetti. The Bakhrushin Theatre Museum collection holds photographs of Adolph Bolm both in his stage roles and in everyday life.