The St.Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre, under the leadership of Boris Eifman, was founded by Eifman in 1977 and became known as the Eifman Ballet.
The Eifman Ballet is well-known around the world for the ballets 'Tchaikovsky' (1993), 'Don Quixote, or Fantasies of a Madman' (1994), 'Red Giselle' (1997), 'Russian Hamlet' (1999), 'Anna Karenina' (2005), 'The Seagull' (2007) and 'Onegin' (2009).