his younger brother, Sergey, became ballet masters and caricaturists.

Legat is considered to be the main successor to Pavel Gerdt. Legat later served as a ballet master in Russia, teaching and passing on the repertoire of the Imperial ballet company, whose groundwork was the legacy of the great choreographer-ballet master, Marius Petipa. He left Russia with his third wife, Nadine, in 1922 and eventually settled in England in 1926. The couple opened their first