Russia Bolshoi
Pavel Dmitrichenko stands in a cage at a court room on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 103. Bolshoi dancer Dmitrichenko goes on trial on Tuesday, on charges of org...
Pavel Dmitrichenko stands in a cage at a court room on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 103. Bolshoi dancer Dmitrichenko goes on trial on Tuesday, on charges of organizing an acid attack against the ballet's artistic director, Sergei Filin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russia Bolshoi
Pavel Dmitrichenko is excorted to a court room on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 103. Bolshoi dancer Dmitrichenko goes on trial on Tuesday, on charges of organiz...
Pavel Dmitrichenko is excorted to a court room on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 103. Bolshoi dancer Dmitrichenko goes on trial on Tuesday, on charges of organizing an acid attack against the ballet's artistic director, Sergei Filin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russia Bolshoi
Pavel Dmitrichenko looks through bars as he stands in a cage at a court room in Moscow on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. Bolshoi dancer Dmitrichenko goes on ...
Pavel Dmitrichenko looks through bars as he stands in a cage at a court room in Moscow on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. Bolshoi dancer Dmitrichenko goes on trial on Tuesday, on charges of organizing an acid attack against the ballet's artistic director, Sergei Filin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russia Bolshoi
Pavel Dmitrichenko looks through bars as he stands in a cage at a court room in Moscow on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. Bolshoi dancer Dmitrichenko goes on ...
Pavel Dmitrichenko looks through bars as he stands in a cage at a court room in Moscow on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. Bolshoi dancer Dmitrichenko goes on trial on Tuesday, on charges of organizing an acid attack against the ballet's artistic director, Sergei Filin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russia Bolshoi
Pavel Dmitrichenko, center, is escorted to a court room in Moscow on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. Bolshoi dancer Dmitrichenko goes on trial on Tuesday, on...
Pavel Dmitrichenko, center, is escorted to a court room in Moscow on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. Bolshoi dancer Dmitrichenko goes on trial on Tuesday, on charges of organizing an acid attack against the ballet's artistic director, Sergei Filin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian court has delayed the start of the trial of a star dancer accused of organizing an acid attack on the Bolshoi ballet chief.
Prosecutors allege dancer Pavel Dmitrichenko ordered the Jan. 17 attack, which left artistic director Sergei Filin with severe acid burns to his face and eyes. The attack exposed a fierce power struggle within the theater.
The trial of Dmitrichenko and two unemployed men accused of perpetrating the attack was to start Tuesday, but the court adjourned for a week due to the absence of one of the lawyers.
Filin visited the Bolshoi last month after months of treatment in Germany, but said he wasn't ready yet to resume work and would be traveling back and forth to Germany for continued treatment.
