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Room by room, he mourned objects that were now beyond repair, and celebrated those that somehow had remained intact.

Wrapping his wife in a blanket as she mourned the loss of her pregnancy at 11 weeks, Hope Ngumezi wondered why no obstetrician was coming to see her.

“I worked nonstop, cleaned every closet in the house I could, did all the landscaping I could do and just mourned,” she said.

As news of Shklyarov’s death broke Saturday, the ballet world mourned the dancer who impressed with his gravity-defying leaps and charming stage presence.

The Dance Theatre of Harlem also mourned the “icon and legend.”