俄罗斯学派（Russian School of Ballet）。1738 年由法国舞蹈家让-巴蒂斯特·朗代（Jean-Baptiste Landé）在圣彼得堡创立。此后法国的影响经由 Charles Le Picq、Charles Didelot、Christian Johanssen、Jules Perrot、Arthur Saint-Léon 和 Marius Petipa 等杰出教师延续下来。1885 年，著名的意大利芭蕾女演员 Virginia Zucchi 现身圣彼得堡，她那强劲有力、光彩夺目的意大利技术——与当时盛行于俄罗斯的法国技术那种柔和优雅的风格迥然不同——引起了巨大轰动。随后 Enrico Cecchetti 等意大利舞者来到俄罗斯，继续以惊人的灵巧、灿烂的 pirouette、tours 与 fouettés 令俄国人叹为观止。俄罗斯舞者迅速吸收了意大利人所能教授的一切，并将其纳入俄罗斯的训练体系。因此，俄罗斯芭蕾学派是法国学派与意大利学派的融合发展。20 世纪 20 年代，俄罗斯芭蕾女演员兼教师 Agrippina Vaganova（瓦岗诺娃）发展出一套系统化的教学体系，后来为全世界所熟知，即「瓦岗诺娃体系（Vaganova system）」。这一体系已成为整个苏联编舞学派的基本教学法。
The Russian School was founded in St. Petersburg in 1738 by the French dancer Jean-Baptiste Landé. The French influence continued under such great teachers as Charles Le Picq, Charles Didelot, Christian Johanssen, Jules Perrot, Arthur Saint-Léon and Marius Petipa. In 1885 Virginia Zucchi, a famous Italian ballerina, appeared in St. Petersburg and created a sensation with her forceful and brilliant Italian technique which differed from the soft, graceful elegance of the French technique prevalent in Russia until then. Other Italian dancers such as Enrico Cecchetti arrived in Russia and continued to astound the Russians with their amazing dexterity, brilliant pirouettes, tours and fouettés. The Russian dancers rapidly absorbed everything the Italians had to teach and incorporated it into the Russian system. Thus, the Russian School of Ballet is a development of the French and Italian Schools. During the 1920s the Russian ballerina and teacher Agrippina Vaganova developed a planned instructional system which later became known to the whole world as the Vaganova system. This system has become the basic method of the entire Soviet choreographic school.