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Thamar Karsarvina (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Richard Norton said:

  Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (10 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a famous Russian ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was most noted as a Principal Artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev. After settling in Hampstead, England, she began teaching ballet professionally and would become recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet. She assisted in the establishment of The Royal Ballet and was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Dance, which is now the world's largest dance teaching organisation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Platonovna_Karsavina

• swanq said:

  Omaha daily bee., November 14, 1915, EDITORIAL MAGAZINE, Image 25 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1915-11-14/ed-... includes this photo among others in a full page feature on the ballerina. Omaha daily bee., July 04, 1915, EDITORIAL SOCIETY, Image 17 chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn99021999/1915-07-04/ed-... shows her in the same costume. The [New York] sun., December 26, 1915, SIXTH SECTION, Page 4, chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1915-12-26/ed-... identifies the costume as for Scheherazade. At the time she was with the Diaghilev company.

• Barbara (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks for the background information and the newspaper references. We'll add information when we next update the description. (There is an additional Bain photo with the more standard spelling of her name that we have not yet added to Flickr, showing her in a balletic pose: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.31568 )