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Tamara Karsavina
Born:
1885, St Petersburg
Died:
1978, London
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 Theatre (1902–18). Prima ballerina of Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in Paris. Died in London (1978).
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