"Coryphees" -- ballet dancers who dance in a small group instead of in the corps de ballet or as a soloist.

"Cossack" -- a member of any of a number of autonomous communities drawn from various ethnic and linguistic groups that formed in Ukraine, southern Russia, the Caucasus Mountains, and Siberia after about 1400.

"Slavic" -- a branch of the Indo-European language family containing Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Polish, Serbian and Croatian, Slovene, Russian, and Ukrainian.

"Volga" -- 2293 miles-long river in Russia rising in the Valdai Hills and flowing into the Caspian Sea.

"Naga" -- a member of a race of spirits recognized in Hinduism and Buddhism that have mingled superhuman and serpent qualities, are genii of waters and rain, and live in a subaqueous kingdom.

"Crimea" -- peninsula in southeastern Europe extending into the Black Sea southwest of the Sea of Azov.

"Siberia" -- vast region of northern Asia chiefly in Russia extending from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

"Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky" -- Russian composer (1840-1893) known for the world-famous ballets "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker."

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