he left with his family to Yalta in southern Russia where the air was more agreeable with his health, and soon the Petipa family relocated to the resort Gurzuf in the Crimea, where the Ballet Master spent his remaining years. In 1907 Petipa wrote in his diary "I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe." Petipa died on at the age of ninety-two, and was interred three days later in the Alexander Nevsky Monastery in St. Petersburg. Notation of works It was in 1891 that many of Petipa's original ballets, revivals, and dances from operas began to be notated in the method of dance notation created by Vladimir Stepanov. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the Imperial Ballet's régisseur Nicholas Sergeyev left Russia with the notations in hand. Throughout the 1930's Sergeyev would make his most substantial contribution to the artform of classical dance by utilizing the notated choreographies to stage Petipa's The Sleeping Beauty, his definitive version of Giselle, Coppélia (as danced by the Imperial Ballet), and The Nutcracker for the Vic-Wells Ballet of London (later the Royal Ballet). Ballets Nantes, France Le Droit du seigneur (1838) La Petite Bohémienne (1838) La Noce à Nantes (1838) Bordeaux, France La Jolie Bordelaise (1840) L’Intrigue amoureuse (1841) La Vendange (1842) Le Langage des fleurs (1844) Madrid, Spain Carmen et son toréro (1845) La Perle de Séville (1845) L’Aventure d’une fille de Madrid (1845) Départ pour la course des taureaux (1845) La Fleur de Grenade (1846) Forfasella ó la hija del infierno (1846) Alba-Flor la pesarosa (1847) Russia Imperial Bolshoi Kammeny Theatre, St. Petersburg Paquita (revival, after J. Mazilier). Staged with Frédéric Malevergne. Music by Edouard Deldevez and Ludvig Minkus. . Le Diable amoureux (as Satanella) (revival, after J. Mazilier). Staged with Jean Petipa. Music by Napoléon Henri Reber, François Benoist and Konstantin Liadov. . Léda, ou la Laitière Suisse (revival, after F. Taglioni). Staged with Jules Perrot and Jean Petipa. Music by Adalbert Gyrowetz, Michele Carafa and Cesare Pugni. . Giselle (revival, after Jean Coralli and J. Perrot). Staged with Jules Perrot. Music by Adolphe Adam and Cesare Pugni. . Le Corsaire (revival, after J. Mazilier). Staged with Jules Perrot. Music by Adolphe Adam and Cesare Pugni. . Un Mariage sous la Régence. Music by Cesare Pugni. . La Carnaval de Venise (pas de deux for Amalia