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96 photos and 69 illustrations tagged russian, from 18 members of Flickr Commons.

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• publicdomain
• xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11
• bldigital
• mechanicalcurator
• libraryofcongress
• vol0
• sherlocknet:category=organism
• woman
• large
• russia
• pubplacelondon
• portrait
• sherlocknet:tag=place
• cyrillic
• medium
• ballet
• sherlocknet:tag=hand
• sherlocknet:tag=year
• ukranian
• sourcebook
• lettering
• osnarsky
• sherlocknet:tag=land
• sherlocknet:tag=office

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• British Library 52 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 48 photos & illustrations
• Letterform Archive 13 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 10 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 7 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 7 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 5 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 5 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Medicine 3 photos & illustrations
• LSE Library 3 photos & illustrations
• New York Public Library 3 photos & illustrations
• George Eastman Museum 2 photos & illustrations

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Nijinski and wife (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• swanq said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaslav_Nijinsky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romola_de_Pulszky Nijinsky's Wikipedia entry indicates,"Nijinsky arrived in New York 4 April 1916." This matches the barely legible date written on the negative, 4/?/14

• swanq said:

  Their daughter Kyra is at
  

• Melinda Young Stuart said:

  Gorgeous couple! Thanks for the reason to read about them both on Wiki~ and for sharing these wonderful images!

• Art Siegel said:

  See notes under

• Ryan (LOC P&P) said:

  Thank you swanq for putting the parents with their daughter. Looks as if both photos were taken in the same sitting. We'll add the dates to the records the next time we update.

Mme. Valentine Kachouba (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• B-59 said:

  Valentine Kachouba was a dancer of the Ballett Russe; another photo shows her in the same dress together with Serge Diaghileff on the French liner Lafayette, which arrived on January 11, 1916 in New York: New-York tribune., January 12, 1916, Page 9 (according to this, V. Kachouba is the woman at left, not at right). Another photo of V. Kachouba in The sun., January 16, 1916, FIFTH SECTION LITHOGRAVURE SUPPLEMENT, Image 55 Alexandra Wassilewska (or Wasilewska) was another dancer of the Ballett Russe, see catalogue.bnf.fr/servlet/autorite?ID=15742148&idNoeud...

• Barbara (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks for the information and links. We can add some information when we next update the description.

Condemned house which was home to a family during World War II, Brisbane, 1943

from State Library of Queensland

• Stephen Farrell said:

  This woman gave birth to her eighth child 27 july 1943 She lost 2 children 21 and 24 September 1943, then in December 1943 she lost her husband. My grandmother was a brave woman.