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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 settling in Britain at Hampstead in London, she began teaching ballet professionally and became recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet. She assisted in the establishment of The Ro…
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entertainment · Russian ballet dancer (1885–1978) · ballet dancer · choreographer · autobiographer · music educator · actor · dancer · also Tamara Karsavina, Tamara Platonovna Karsavina, Karsavina
Born 25 February 1885 · Died 26 May 1978 · Q231316
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Artnet news: TAMARA KARSAVINA AND VASLAV NIJINSKY IN 'LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE
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Died 1978-05-26.
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Karsavina advised Sir Frederick Ashton on his important revival of La Fille Mal Gardée for the Royal Ballet
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Just before Red Terror was launched by the Bolsheviks at the beginning of the Russian Civil War, and moved to Paris, where she continued her association with the Ballets Russes as a leading ballerina
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Her niece, Marianna Karsavina (1910–1993), married Ukrainian author and artistic patron Pyotr Suvchinsky.
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Once again guided by her mother, she married the civil servant Vasili Vasilievich Mukhin (1880 – post 1941), in the chapel of the Ballet School
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Guided by her mother, Anna Iosifovna, Karsavina rejected a marriage proposal from Mikhail Fokine
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Studied at Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet (1902).
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Leaving her family in dire straits financially
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After a rigorous examination, Karsavina was accepted at the Imperial Ballet School
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Born 1885-02-25.
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