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Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (Russian: Тамара Платоновна Карсавина; 9 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) 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.
May 22, 2024 · Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (born March 9/10, 1885, St. Petersburg, Russia—died May 26, 1978, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, Eng.) was an Anglo-Russian ballerina whose partnership with Vaslav Nijinsky in Michel Fokine’s avant-garde ballets helped to revive interest in ballet in western Europe.
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Learn about the life and career of Tamara Karsavina, one of the leading ballerinas of the Ballets Russes and a pioneer of modern ballet education. Find out how she danced in classics and innovations, escaped the Russian Revolution, and influenced European ballet.
May 27, 1978 · Tamara Karsavina, one of the greatest ballerinas of her geneilation, died in her sleep at the age of 93 yesterday in the London nursing home where she had lived for the past few years, Reuters...
Tamara Karsavina Biography. Notable: 1885 – 1978; Mariinsky Ballet, Ballets Russes. Tamara Karsavina was born in St Petersburg in 1885. She studied with the Imperial Ballet School for Cecchetti, Gerdt and Johansson, and also with the Caterina Beretta in Milan.
Tamara Karsavina. (1885-1978), Ballet dancer. Sitter in 35 portraits. The Russian-born ballet dancer Karsavina trained at the Imperial Ballet School and began her career at the Maryinsky Theatre, St Petersburg.
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Tamara Karsavina. (1885—1978) ballet dancer. Quick Reference. (Tamara Platonovna Karsavina; born 9 March 1885 in Saint Petersburg, died 26 May 1978 in Beaconsfield, England), Russian-British ballerina, teacher, and writer. Karsavina's father, Platon Karsavin, was a first dancer ...
