In 1876, Marius Petipa was attracted by the idea of the ballet "La Bayadère." Sergei Khudekov developed the plot based on "Shakuntala, or The Sign of Shakuntala" by the ancient Indian poet Kalidasa. However, the original source of Petipa's ballet wasn't this ancient drama, but the French ballet "Shakuntala" by T. Gauthier.
The Austrian composer Ludwig Minkus's ballet “La Bayadère” was premiered on February 4, 1877, at the Bolshoi Theater in St. Petersburg. Then the play disappeared from the repertoire for more than a decade. In 1941, a great expert on the classical heritage, Vladimir Ponomarev, and the young choreographer Vakhtang Chabukiani jointly created a three-act version of the old play. In 1948, this version was replenished and since then has not descended from the theater stage.
This expression is used to point out the beginning and the end of something, the main and basic thing, the essence (in Armenian this expression is used as "Ayb and Fe" or "Ayb and Ke"). This expression is taken from the Book of Revelation of Apostle John. The author of the last book of the Bible starts his book with the word "revelation." In some languages that word is translated is "apocalypsis," which comes from Greek. For the contemporary reader, this word has gained an absolutely specific, even ominous meaning.
