Biography
Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Gracheva (born 21 December 1969) is a Russian ballerina and ballet teacher who has danced with the Bolshoi Ballet.

She rehearsed the major part of her repertory with Galina Ulanova (she was her last pupil). Today she rehearses with Marina Kondratieva.

Main Repertory

1988
Mistress of the Dryads (Don Quixote; choreography by Alexander Gorsky)

1989
Shadow of Princess Mlada and Queen Cleopatra (opera-ballet Mlada by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; choreography by Andrei Petrov)

1990
Myrtha (Giselle; Yuri Grigorovich production)
Seventh Waltz and Prelude (Chopiniana; choreography by Mikhail Fokine)
Henrietta (Raymonda; Yuri Grigorovich production)
Mistress of the Copper Mountain (Sergei Prokofiev's The Stone Flower; choreography by Yuri Grigorovich)

1991
Nikia (La Bayadere; Yuri Grigorovich production) - role creator
Odette-Odile (Swan Lake; choreography Alexander Gorsky, Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov in a version by Yuri Grigorovich)

1992
Medora (Le Corsaire, choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev after Marius Petipa) - role creator at Bolshoi Theatre

1993
Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty; Yuri Grigorovich production)
Title Role (Giselle)

1994
Medora (Le Corsaire; choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev after Marius Petipa in a version by Yuri Grigorovich) - role creator
Title Role (Herman Lovenskjold's La Sylphide; choreography August Bournonville in a version by E.M. von Rosen) - role creator at Bolshoi Theatre

1995
Kitri (Don Quixote; choreography by Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky in a version by Yuri Grigorovich)
Aegina (Spartacus; choreography by Yuri Grigorovich)
Mekhmene Banu (Arif Melikhov's Legend of Love; choreography by Yuri Grigorovich)
Juliet (Romeo and Juliet; choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky)

1996
Jeanna (Last Tango to music by Astor Piazzolla; choreography by Vyacheslav Gordeyev) - role creator

1999
Soloist Part 1 (Symphony in C; choreography by George Balanchine) - role creator at Bolshoi Theatre

2000
Aspiccia (Cesare Pugni's La Fille du Pharaon; production by Pierre Lacotte after Marius Petipa)

2002
Odette-Odile (Swan Lake in a second version by Yuri Grigorovich)

2003
Title Role (Raymonda)

2004
Soloist Part 2 (Symphony in C)
Sylvia Pas de Deux (from the ballet of the same name to music by Leo Delibes; choreography by George Balanchine) - role creator at Bolshoi Theatre
Title Role (Leah to music by Leonard Bernstein; choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, second version) - role creator

She participated in the Bolshoi Theatre New Year Premieres for young choreographers (1997), dancing the solo part in Jorg Mannes's Four Kisses to music by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Tours

She was guest ballerina at Belgrade’s National Theatre where, from 1994-5, she danced the lead roles in Don Quixote, Giselle (partner - Konstantin Kostyukov, National Theatre Belgrade soloist) and Swan Lake (partner - Andrei Uvarov). She was awarded with a For outstanding services to the National Theatre medal.

Awards

In 1986, she won 2^nd prize (junior group) at the International Competition of Ballet Dancers, Varna.
In 1988, she won 1^st prize and the Leningrad College of Choreography prize (junior group) at the All-Union Competition of Ballet Dancers; she also won 2^nd prize (junior group) at the International Competition of Ballet Dancers, Varna.
In 1992, for her performance as Nikia she was awarded a Benois de la danse prize.
In 1994, she was awarded the title Merited Artist of the Russian Federation.
In 1995, she won lst prize at the International Competition of Ballet Dancers, Osaka (Japan).
In 1996, she was awarded the title People's Artist of the Russian Federation and won a State Prize of Russia.
In 2001, she was awarded the Order of Honor.
In 2009, she won the Russian Ballet journal Soul of Dance prize (in the Queen of Dance nomination).