Lydia Lopokova, Baroness Keynes was a Russian ballerina famous during the early 20th century.
Lydia Lopokova in 1922
Lydia Lopokova, 1917
Lopokova with Keynes in the 1920s
The Ballets Russes was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America. The company never performed in Russia, where the Revolution disrupted society. After its initial Paris season, the company had no formal ties there.
Poster by Jean Cocteau for the 1911 Ballet Russe season showing Nijinsky in costume for Le Spectre de la rose, Paris
Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes
Ballet Russes by August Macke, 1912
Image: Pavillion d'Armide by A. Benois 01