Question: What company founded in 1776, was Stanislav Vlasov a former principal artist for?
Context: Steven Melendez is a classical dancer from the USA.  He is a principal artist with the New York Theatre Ballet.  Formerly, he was a principal artist with the Estonian National Ballet and a soloist with Ballet Concierto in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Moscow Ballet has toured the United States and Canada during the holiday season since 1993 and is exclusively represented by Talmi Entertainment Inc for these tours.  There are 70 to 80 Russian-trained classical dancers on the annual N.A. tour who fly in from the former republic of Russia.  Stanislav Vlasov, a former principal artist of the Bolshoi Ballet, was the first artistic director on the North American tour in 1993.  Vlasov's debut in the United States was at Carnegie Hall in 1957. Josephine Lucchese (July 24, 1893 – September 10, 1974) was an American operatic soprano who had an active international singing career during the 1920s and 1930s.  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Based on the recommendation and work by the committee the NCS Board of Managers approved football playoffs at its January 18, 1975 meeting and reaffirmed that decision at its May 3, 1975 meeting .  Apparently it was a close vote, and the deciding vote to resume NCS Football Playoffs was cast by then NCS President Dutch Williams, representing the Alameda County Athletic League. Sitmar Cruises and its predecessor Sitmar Line were company names derived from the acronym for the Societa Italiana Trasporti Marittimi (English: Italian Maritime Transport Company ).  SITMAR originally was an Italian shipping line founded by Russian émigré Alexandre Vlasov, however the company's headquarters were later transferred to Monaco.  Vlasov initially operated cargo services from 1937, gradually replacing these with passenger services from 1947 until 1988, when SITMAR was sold to the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P&O).  After the sale, most of the former SITMAR ships were transferred to the fleet of P&O subsidiary Princess Cruises, while one, TSS Fairstar, became the sole vessel of the newly created P&O-Sitmar Cruises (later P&O Holidays).  As of April 2014, one briefly named former SITMAR ship (Sitmar Fairmajesty) is still operational, as P&O Cruises Australia's Pacific Pearl.  However, two other vessels originally ordered by SITMAR but delivered to P&O also currently operate from Australia, as Pacific Jewel and Pacific Dawn. Blakeley White-McGuire (born October 28, 1974 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is an award-winning dancer, choreographer, répétiteur, and educator.  She is a Principal Guest Artist and former Principal Dancer of Martha Graham Dance Company.  Described by Gia Kourlas of the "New York Times" in 2007 as having a "powerful technique and dramatic instinct with an appealing modern spunk", White-McGuire has received widespread critical acclaim as a Graham dancer.
Answer: Bolshoi Ballet