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Mathilde-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinska ( Polish: Matylda Maria Krzesińska; Russian: Матильда Феликсовна Кшесинская; 31 August [ O.S. 19 August] 1872 – 6 December 1971; also known as Princess Romanovskaya-Krasinskaya after her marriage) was a Polish–Russian ballerina from the noble Krzesiński family. Her father ...
Mathilde Kschessinska (born August 19 [August 31, New Style], 1872, Ligovo, near Peterhof, Russia—died December 7, 1971, Paris, France) was the prima ballerina assoluta of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the first Russian dancer to master 32 consecutive fouettés en tournant (“whipped turns” done in place and on one leg), a feat previously performed only by Italian dancers and considered in that era the supreme achievement in dance technique.
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Dec 6, 2014 · This video contains two pieces of footage of famed Mariinsky ballerina Mathilde Kschessinskaya (1872-1971).The first shows Kschessinskaya greeting guests and...
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Personal Archive. “Had Matilda given birth to the child of Nicholas II, the emperor and the court would have known about it. Matilda was a very ambitious woman who knew what she wanted and ...
Sep 18, 2014 · It is possible that this is film of famed Russian Prima Ballerina of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971) dancing. I have...
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Kshesinskaia, Matilda (1872–1971)One of the foremost classical Russian ballerinas between 1890 and 1917. Name variations: at least nine different transliterations from the Russian, the most common being Mathilde or Matilde Kchessinska, Kcshessinskaya, Kschessinska, Kshesinskaia, Kshesinskaya, Kshessinskaya, Kshessinskaia; Princess Romanovsky-Krassinsky (after 1935).
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Oct 25, 2017 · Mathilde Kschessinska. Born in 1872, the ballet dancer of Polish origin is a prima ballerina at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. Alexei Yefimovich Uchitel, the famed Russian film director ...
