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
The Pharaoh's Daughter
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The Pharaoh's Daughter is a ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Cesare Pugni. The libretto was a collaboration between Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Petipa from Théophile Gauti
Mathilde Kschessinskaya as the Princess Aspicia (1903)
Vera Karalli as the Princess Aspicia and Platon Karsavin as Father Nile with unidentified children in the scene The Kingdom of the Rivers. St. Petersburg, circa 1915
Photographic postcard of Anna Pavlova as the Princess Aspicia in Petipa's 1898 production, circa 1910
Anna Pavlova as the Princess Aspicia and Mikhail Mordkin as Lord Wilson/Taor in Alexander Gorsky's 1905 revision for the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre, 1909