Now the next piece Swan Lake. Oh, I should say Swan Lake Suite. Okay was composed by none other than Peter Tchaikovsky in 1875 Anson that 1876 the scenario of this ballet initially in for X was fashioned from Russian folk tales and tells the story of Odette a princess turned into a swan by an evil. a sorcerer's curse The Russian ballet patriarch Theodore Lupo cough has called Swan Lake a national ballet because of its swans which he argues originated from Russian. Lyrically romantic sources, while many of the movements of the ballet originated from The slavonic Ring dances. According to Lou bakov both the plot of Swan Lake and the image of the Swan and the Very idea of a faithful love are essentially Russian. I'm not sure if Putin would agree, but we now present to you Swan Lake.