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Dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko confessed to setting up the violent hit on his artistic director, Sergei Filin, but says that he never agreed that the attacker.
Dmitrichenko was found guilty of masterminding an acid attack on the world-renowned Moscow theatre's artistic director Sergei Filin on 17 January!
Profile: Pavel Dmitrichenko
By 2006, he had been thinking of quitting ballet "after a year or two", he told Russia 24, but the artistic director of the time, Yuri Grigorovich, persuaded him after The Golden Age that ballet was his calling.
Among the roles that followed were Spartacus in the ballet of the same name (2009) and Jose in Carmen Suite (2010).
Ivan the Terrible (2012) was seen by his tutor, Alexander Vetrov, as being potentially his "role of a lifetime".
As the soloist's career progressed, Ms Vorontsova did not achieve similar leading roles and Russian media have speculated that Dmitrichenko blamed Mr Filin for blocking her advancement unfairly.
When news broke of his arrest, a police source told Izvestia newspaper: "The main motive was enmity towards Filin, who according to the suspect, had a negative attitude towards his partner.
"Dmitrichenko said that Filin was thwarting Vorontsova's artistic career and did not give her th