When was the Bolshoi Ballet formed?
Bolshoi Ballet
Despite staging many famous ballets, it struggled to compete with the reputation of the Imperial Russian Ballet, today's Mariinsky Ballet of St. Petersburg. It was not until the appointment of Alexander Gorsky as Ballet Master in 1900 that the company began to develop its own unique identity, with acclaimed productions of new or restaged ballets including, Don Quixote (1900), Coppélia  (1901), Swan Lake  (1901), La fille mal gardée  (1903),  Giselle  (1911), Le Corsaire  (1912) and La Bayadère (1917).[4]