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{{Short description|1932 ballet by Boris Asafyev}}
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{{Infobox Ballet
|name       = Flames of Paris
|image      = Natalia Osipova in Flames of Paris Bolshoi Theatre 2011-10-28.jpg
|image_size = 175px
|caption    = [[Natalia Osipova]] in an extract from ''Flames of Paris'', at the reopening gala of the Bolshoi Theatre, 2011
|choreographer    = [[Vasily Vainonen]]
|composer     = [[Boris Asafyev]]
|based_on   = a book by [[Felix Gras]]
|premiere   = 7 November 1932
|place     = [[Kirov Theatre]], [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]]
|ballet_company       =
|characters = Mireille de Poitiers<br />Jérôme<br />Jeanne<br />Thérèse<br />Mistral<br/>Louis XVI<br/>Marie-Antoinette 
|set designer  = Vladimir Dmitriev
|setting    = [[French Revolution]]
|created for     =
|genre      = 
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}}

'''''Flames of Paris''''' or ''The Flames of Paris'' ({{langx|ru|Пла́мя Пари́жа}}) is a full-length [[ballet]] in four acts, choreographed by [[Vasily Vainonen]] with the stage director Sergei Radlov to music by [[Boris Asafyev]] based on songs of the French Revolution. The libretto by Nicolai Volkov and Vladimir Dmitriev was adapted from a book by [[Felix Gras]]. It was premiered at the [[Kirov Theatre]] in [[Saint Petersburg|Leningrad]] on 7 November 1932, with [[Natalia Dudinskaya]] as Mireille de Poitiers, [[Vakhtang Chabukiani]] as Jérôme, Olga Jordan as Jeanne, [[Nina Anisimova (dancer)|Nina Anisimova]] as Thérèse, and [[Konstantin Sergeyev]] as Mistral. 

The Bolshoi Ballet premiered the full work on 6 July 1933 at the [[Bolshoi Theatre]] in [[Moscow]], with [[Aleksey Yermolayev]] (Jérôme), [[Anastasia Abramova]] (Jeanne), [[:ru:Капустина,_Надежда_Алексеевна|Nadezhda Kapustina]] (Thérèse) and [[Marina Semenova]] (Mireille de Poitiers). The conductor was [[Yuri Fayer]].


A new production (using some of the original choreography) was staged in 2008 by [[Alexei Ratmansky]] for the [[Bolshoi Ballet]] and is available on DVD with [[Ivan Vasiliev]] and [[Natalia Osipova]].

In 2013 a three-act reconstruction of the Vainonen ballet was staged by Mikhail Messerer for St Petersburg's Mikhailovsky Theatre. It is based on a 1947 version done by Vainonen for the Bolshoi.