As the Imperial Russian Ballet, the company is most famous for premiering numerous ballets by the renowned choreographer Marius Petipa. He created many of his most famous works during his time as a ballet master and director of the company in the mid to late 1800s. A number of his ballets now form the basis of the traditional classical ballet repertoire, performed by ballet companies around the world, and often retaining much of Petipa's choreography. These ballets include the original productions of "The Nutcracker", "The Sleeping Beauty", "Don Quixote", "La Bayadère", and "Raymonda"; and popular revivals of older ballets, including "Coppélia", "Giselle", and "Le Corsaire". Petipa's revival of the ballet "Swan Lake" is perhaps his most famous work for the company. Originally choreographed by Julius Reisinger for the Bolshoi Theatre in 1877, "Swan Lake" was initially a critical and commercial failure. Petipa sought to revive the ballet with the blessing of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, but the composer died before the new ballet was created. Petipa consequently worked with his brother Modest Tchaikovsky, who significantly revised the story and rewrote the libretto to the version now commonly performed. The production was choreographed by Petipa and his collaborator Lev Ivanov. Premiering at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1895, the Petipa/Ivanov/Tchaikovsky production of Swan Lake was a major success and is now considered the most famous ballet of all time. Nearly all subsequent productions of Swan Lake are based on this 1895 production.