Ballet

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  • Mathilde Kschessinska

    Mathilde Kschessinska was born on 31 August 1872 in the resort of Ligovo near St Petersburg. She came from a family of famous Polish ballet dancers who performed at the imperial theatres, including h...

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  • Tamara Karsavina

    Ballerina. Born in St Petersburg in the family of ballet dancer Platon Karsavin and Anna Khomyakova (1885). Graduated from the Imperial Ballet School in St Petersburg (1902). Danced at the Mariinsky ...

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  • Mikhail Fokine

    Ballet dancer, choreographer. Born in St Petersburg the family of a merchant called Mikhail Fokin (1880). Graduated from the Imperial Ballet School in St Petersburg (1898). Danced at the Mariinsky Th...

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  • Fanny Elssler

    Austrian character dancer. Born Franziska Elßler in Gumpendorf near Vienna (1810). Performed in Russia (1848–51). Introduced La Cachucha (an Andalusian dance) to the theatre. Died in Vienna (1884).

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  • Alla Shelest

    Ballerina. Born in Smolensk in the family of Yakov Shelest (1919). Performed at the Kirov Theatre in Leningrad. Winner of the Stalin Prize (1947, 1951), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1957). Died in S...

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  • Nadezhda Nadezhdina

    Ballerina. Born in Vilna (1908) in the family of physiotherapist Sergei Brustein (1873–1947) and writer Alexandra Vygodskaya (1884–1968). Studied under Nikolai Legat and Agrippina Vaganova at the Pet...

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