Karsavina Т.P., (1885-1978), ballet dancer

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KARSAVINA Tamara Platonovna (1885, St. Petersburg - 1978), ballet dancer. L. P. Karsavin's sister. A student of P. A. Gerdt, she graduated from the Petersburg Theatre School in 1902. Dancing in Mariinsky Theatre in 1902-18, she played key parts in M. I. Petipa's Giselle, Raymonda, Sleeping Beauty, L. I. Ivanov and Petipa's Swan Lake, and M. M. Fokine's Chopiniana and Carnival. She took part in S. P. Diaghilev's Russian Seasons Abroad from 1909 and Ballets Russes from 1913 to dance leading parts in I. F. Stravinsky's Firebird and Petrushka and other ballets choreographed by Fokine. She emigrated in 1918. Strongly attracted by modern art, she was an elegant ladylike dancer able to play parts of various genres, from tragedy to grotesque. She lived in Napravnik's house at 6 Kryukov Canal.

Works: Teatralnaya Street published in Leningrad in 1971.

Reference: Светлов В. Я. Современный балет. СПб., 1911; Красовская В. М. Русский балетный театр начала XX века: В 2 ч. Л., 1972. Ч. 2. С. 275-302.

G. N. Dobrovolskaya. Dyagilev Sergey Pavlovich
Fokin Mikhail Mikhailovich
Gerdt Pavel Andreevich
Ivanov Lev Ivanovich
Karsavin Lev Platonovich
Karsavina Tamara Platonovna
Petipa Marius Ivanovich
Stravinsky Igor Fedorovich
Kryukova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 6
Светлов В. Я. Современный балет. СПб., 1911
Красовская В. М. Русский балетный театр начала XX века: В 2 ч. Л., 1972
Театральная улица. Л., 1971 Theatre College
Mariinsky Theatre