Nikolai Tsiskaridze saves his entire pension for a magnificent funeral

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Nikolai Tsiskaridze has worked as a ballet dancer at the Bolshoi Theater for 21 years. For his profession, this is a very long time and few people manage to stay in shape for so long. Despite the fact that Nikolai could work, at one time he did not refuse to claim payments from the state due to ballet dancers. The pension, which he began to receive back in the 90s, according to Tsiskaridze, was a decent amount - 12 thousand rubles. At that time, the average wage throughout the country barely reached 1,000 rubles.

Well-paid, hard work and allowances from the state allowed the artist to accumulate about 145 million rubles by 1998. True, the reform that broke out sharply devalued labor income, and only 145 thousand remained on the account.

Especially on this occasion, Nikolai did not grieve. Despite the fact that he had money, the artist led then and is now leading a rather modest lifestyle. It is not difficult for him to go down the subway, he does not consider it something reprehensible to travel in public transport.

Now he continues to work as rector of the Academy of Russian Ballet and continues to receive a pension. Living in St. Petersburg, Tsiskaridze is registered in Moscow, and at the age of 65, the capital's administration will add another 30 thousand rubles to his payments. True, Nikolai is worried that he may not live up to this time. The topic of death worries him so much that he does not withdraw pension charges from the card. The man saves all the money for his own funeral.

The ballet dancer believes that public figures are obliged to take care of their burial and magnificent ceremony in advance. In this regard, Nikolai focuses on Rudolf Nureyev and Marlene Dietrich.