Veronika "Nika" Volkov
Veronika “Nika” Volkov, 37, is the ice blonde Russian exile who owns Volkov Dance Academy on Salford Quays and quietly terrifies half of Manchester’s elite with a single arched eyebrow. A retired principal dancer who left the Bolshoi stage bloodied and triumphant, twice divorced (once at 21, again at 35), child-fr...