18.01.2013

The Bolshoi Theatre Company has received and continues to receive letters and telephone calls with words of support from all corners of the earth. Theatre people, friends, Bolshoi Theatre fans and simply people of goodwill express their sympathy for Filin and protest against the barbaric action of the attacker.

The members of the Bolshoi Theatre Council of Trustees express their solidarity with the family of Sergei Filin and the Theatre Company in connection with the horrific attack on the Artistic Director of Ballet.

The members of the Bolshoi Theatre Council of Trustees express their solidarity with the family of Sergei Filin and the Theatre Company in connection with the horrific attack on the Artistic Director of Ballet.

In the two years he has occupied this post, Sergei Filin has managed to seriously renew the Ballet Company and to conduct an artistic policy enabling the Bolshoi Theatre to remain the best ballet company in the world, and preserve its world cultural heritage at the same time as constantly developing.

The attack on Sergei Filin will not go unpunished. Members of the Bolshoi Theatre Council of Trustees hope that the crime will be solved and the guilty parties named. The Council is ready to give all possible support to ensure that Sergei receives the best possible treatment.

We hope Sergei will soon be back at work. We will be waiting for him.

Alexander Budberg
Oleg Deripaska
Anatoly Iksanov
Vitaly Klintsov
Andrei Kostin
Vladimir Kozhin
Ziyavudin Magomedov
Alexei Mordashov
Alexander Provotorov
Mikhail Shvydkoy
Vasily Titov
Nikolai Tokarev
Viktor Vekselberg
Valentin Yumashev
Alexander Zhukov