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
Sergeyev Collection
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The Sergeyev Collection is an assemblage of materials that document the repertory of the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg as it existed at the turn-of-the 20th century. The collection consists primar
A drawing of Nicholas Sergeyev by Pavel Froman, 1929. Courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection.
A page of the Stepanov choreographic notation for the Petipa/Minkus La Bayadère, circa 1900. Courtesy of the Harvard Theatre Collection.