Vera Fokina, 1910. (A. Doumenq.) Collection des plus beaux numéros de “Comœdia illustré” et des programmes consacrés aux ballets et galas russes depuis le début à Paris, 1909-1921. | src BnF
Les Nymphes dans “L’Après-Midi d’un Faune”. 7me Saison de Ballets Russes. Collection des plus beaux numéros de “Comœdia illustré” et des programmes consacrés aux ballets et galas russes depuis le début à Paris, 1909-1921. Published 1912. | src BnF ~ Gallica
Michel Fokine as Amoun in Cleopatra (1908). Imperial Theater Photo. Michel Fokine was Diaghilev’s chief ballet master and choreographer until his departure in 1912. He returned to the company in 1914. | src and hi res Flickr / Leo Boudreau
Photograph of Ninette de Valois as ‘un joueur de volant’ [Badminton player] in Nijnska’s Les Facheux The Annoying Ones, given by the Diaghilev Ballets Russes. It was based on Molière’s libretto for Beauchamps’ much earlier work of the same name (1661). Photographer unknown. | src RBS/STA/NDV/PHO/
Russian dancer Felia Doubrovska, or Felia Dubrovskaya [Russian: Фелия Дубровская], real name Фелицата Леонтьевна Длужневская, (Felizata or Felicata Dlouzhnevskain); born in St Petersburg, on February 13, 1896. Dancer in Balanchine ballet and Diaghilev Ballets Russes, ca. 1929
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