Cinderella (Fitinhof-Schell)
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Cinderella is a ballet-féerie in three acts, with the choreography of Enrico Cecchetti and Lev Ivanov supervised by Marius Petipa. Music is by Baron Boris Fitinhoff-Schell; the libretto is by Lidia Pa
The Italian ballerina Pierina Legnani in her costume for act I of the Imperial Ballet's production of Cinderella. St. Petersburg, 1893.
Pierina Legnani in the title role of Cinderella. St. Petersburg, 1894
Design by Matvey Shishkov for act II of the Imperial Ballet's production of Cinderella, St. Petersburg, 1893
Mathilde Kschessinska
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Mathilde-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinska, also known as Princess Romanovskaya-Krasinskaya upon her marriage, was a Polish-Russian ballerina from the noble Krzesiński family. Her father, Felix Kschessins
Kschessinska costumed for the title role in Petipa's La Camargo. St. Petersburg, c. 1902
Kschessinska in 1898, in costume for The Pharaoh's Daughter
Kschessinska's tomb at the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Orthodox Cemetery, 2014
Mathilde Kschessinska in the winter garden cropped