Tamara Karsavina
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Tamara Platonovna Karsavina was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. After
Karsavina c. 1912
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina, Saint Petersburg, c. 1915
Karsavina, c. 1910
Tamara 1912
Anna Pavlova
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Anna Pavlovna Pavlova was a Russian prima ballerina. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev, but is most recognized for creating the role
Tamara Karsavina
…was perhaps most famous for creating the title role in Fokine's The Firebird with Fokine, her occasional partner. (This role was originally offered to Anna Pavlova, who could not come to terms with Stravinsky's strikingly new score.) Karsavina left Russia in 1918, just before Red Terror was launched by the Bolsheviks…
Pavlova, c. 1905
Students of the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg, in Marius Petipa's Un conte de fées. A ten-year-old A Pavlova (kneeling on left, holding birdcage) appeared in her first ever ballet performance. 1891.
Caricature of Pavlova as Nikiya in La Bayadère by the brothers Nikolai Legat and Sergei Legat for their book The Russian Ballet In Caricatures. 1903
Anna Pavlova in 1905