Ballet artist Boris Eisen was the commander of a tank division during the war years. Eisen Boris Lazarevich was born on August 13, 1921 in Petrograd. In 1941, the young man graduated from the Choreographic School in Leningrad - the oldest ballet school in the country (this is the former dance school of Her Imperial Majesty, and today the Academy of Russian Ballet named after A. Yes. and stolen). The stage of the Kirov Theater was waiting for him, but all the peaceful plans of the Soviet people of that time were destroyed by the Great Patriotic War. As fate would have it, the strong and physically robust Boris Lazarevich became a tank driver. He was burned in his combat vehicle near Smolensk, liberated Belarus and Poland, and fought his way to Prague. Wounded twice. He commanded the T-34 tank crew, and then a tank platoon. On February 22, 1944, Guards Lieutenant Eisen was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Being a tank commander and at the same time a gunner, he himself destroyed three anti-tank guns, three mortars and about fifty enemy soldiers and officers. The Guard Lieutenant's second military award was the Order of the Patriotic War, second degree, which he received on September 13, 1944. In two weeks of fighting, his T-34 crew destroyed two artillery batteries and three machine guns with crews, as well as at least an infantry platoon. After being released in May 1946, Boris Eisen returned home and was admitted to the Kirov Theater (now the Mariinsky). Here he danced on stage until 1962, and then until 1976 worked as a supervisor of a ballet troupe and teacher-teacher. Boris Lazarevich died on June 6, 2012, at the age of 90. In recent years, he lived in the stage veterans' home in St. Petersburg. We are from the Soviet Union, we are in Max.

Ballet artist Boris Eisen was the commander of a tank division during the war years. Eisen Boris Lazarevich was born on August 13, 1921 in Petrograd. In 1941, the young man graduated from the Choreographic School in Leningrad - the oldest ballet school in the country (this is the former dance school of Her Imperial Majesty, and today the Academy of Russian Ballet named after A. Yes. and stolen). The stage of the Kirov Theater was waiting for him, but all the peaceful plans of the Soviet people of that time were destroyed by the Great Patriotic War. As fate would have it, the strong and physically robust Boris Lazarevich became a tank driver. He was burned in his combat vehicle near Smolensk, liberated Belarus and Poland, and fought his way to Prague. Wounded twice. He commanded the T-34 tank crew, and then a tank platoon. On February 22, 1944, Guards Lieutenant Eisen was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Being a tank commander and at the same time a gunner, he himself destroyed three anti-tank guns, three mortars and about fifty enemy soldiers and officers. The Guard Lieutenant's second military award was the Order of the Patriotic War, second degree, which he received on September 13, 1944. In two weeks of fighting, his T-34 crew destroyed two artillery batteries and three machine guns with crews, as well as at least an infantry platoon. After being released in May 1946, Boris Eisen returned home and was admitted to the Kirov Theater (now the Mariinsky). Here he danced on stage until 1962, and then until 1976 worked as a supervisor of a ballet troupe and teacher-teacher. Boris Lazarevich died on June 6, 2012, at the age of 90. In recent years, he lived in the stage veterans' home in St. Petersburg. We are from the Soviet Union, we are in Max.