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Karsavina, Tamara

LC control no.n 79122073
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Personal name headingKarsavina, Tamara
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Variant(s)Bruce, Tamara Karsavina
Associated countryGreat Britain Russia
Associated placeSaint Petersburg (Russia)
Birth date1885-03-10
Death date1978-05-26
Place of deathBeaconsfield (England)
Field of activityBallet
AffiliationImperial Russian Ballet Ballets russes Royal Ballet Royal Academy of Dance (Great Britain)
Profession or occupationBallet dancers
Found inİvchenko, Valerïan I︠a︡kovlevich. Thamar Karsavina, 1922.
Gogolʹ - mogolʹ, 2006: Russian CIP (... Tamaru Karsavinu) p. 103 (Tamara Platonovna)
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1888)
Who's Who online ed., 22 June 2015 (Tamara Karsavina (Mrs. H.J. Bruce); born 10 March 1885, died 26 May 1978
Wikipedia, 22 June 2015 (Tamara Karsavina; Tamara Platonovna Karsavina, born 10 March 1885 in St. Petersburg, Russia; died 26 May 1978 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England; Russian prima ballerina, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Serge 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 Royal Ballet and was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Dance; in June 1918 she married the British diplomat Henry James Bruce)
Russian Ballet History website, 22 June 2015: Diaghilev's dancers (Tamara Karsavina; born 10 March 1885, died 26 May 1978)