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In the beginning of XIX century in Russian society interest to national forms of art was brightly showed. The art direction which has come in the stead to classicism - romanticism cultivated interest to folklore, the national past of the people.

In Moscow it was arranged ' semik, or the Walk in Marinoj to the Grove '. semik is the national maiden holiday which has remained from an extreme antiquity. It fell to the seventh Thursday after Easter. During this holiday of the girl danced and drove round dances round a birch decorated with tapes; bent it, svivali a wreath and in pairs passed with singing of songs. This dancing is musical-dramatized representation went to first time at serf theatre Sheremetevyh - Ostankine, and then since 1815 was put in the Bolshoi theatre.

The Ballet master And. P.Glushkovsky, one of founders of Russian ballet, wrote concerning such divertissement: '... With what dance, ruddy, Russian dancing if you see in it the young girl full can be compared to a harmonous waist, with well corrected case and hands, with expression in the person, floating as a swan on lake! How many luxury, feeling of movement, nobleness in this dance! Even the pases of this dancing differ modesty and any virgin bashfulness! Here there is nothing vakhicheskogo, anything sharply sensual or similar on French found attitjudy '.