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Tamara Karsavina

1885 - 1978

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Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (Russian: Тамара Платоновна Карсавина; 9 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Sergei 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, which is now the world's largest dance-teaching organisation. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tamara Karsavina is the 17th most popular dancer (up from 18th in 2019), the 301st most popular biography from Russia (up from 340th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Dancer.

Tamar Karsavina was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer. She was a principal dancer with the Imperial Russian Ballet and was a leading dancer in the Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. She is most famous for being the first prima ballerina assoluta.

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Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Tamara Karsavina ranks 17 out of 116. Before her are Bobby Farrell, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Margot Fonteyn, Maya Plisetskaya, Michel Fokine, and Jean-Georges Noverre. After her are Martha Graham, George Balanchine, Serge Lifar, Alicia Alonso, Izumo no Okuni, and Galina Ulanova.

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Among people born in 1885, Tamara Karsavina ranks 41. Before her are Sinclair Lewis, Hermann Weyl, Alexander Löhr, Hugo Sperrle, Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, and Erich von Stroheim. After her are Giacomo Matteotti, Luigi Russolo, Otto Klemperer, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Jules Pascin, and G. W. Pabst. Among people deceased in 1978, Tamara Karsavina ranks 34. Before her are Houari Boumédiène, Hasso von Manteuffel, Sisavang Vatthana, Charles Best, Harold Lasswell, and Jim Jones. After her are James B. Conant, Herta Oberheuser, Shozo Tsugitani, József Bozsik, Nazli Sabri, and Ed Wood.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Tamara Karsavina ranks 301 out of 3,761. Before her are Varlam Shalamov (1907), Andrey Markov (1856), Georgy Chicherin (1872), Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), Otto Nicolai (1810), and Mikhail Mishustin (1966). After her are Aleksandr Lyapunov (1857), Chung Il-kwon (1917), Roman Abramovich (1966), Boris Nemtsov (1959), Grand Duke George Alexandrovich of Russia (1871), and Andrei Grechko (1903).

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Among DANCERS In Russia

Among dancers born in Russia, Tamara Karsavina ranks 5. Before her are Rudolf Nureyev (1938), Anna Pavlova (1881), Maya Plisetskaya (1925), and Michel Fokine (1880). After her are George Balanchine (1904), Galina Ulanova (1910), Alexander Godunov (1949), Agrippina Vaganova (1879), Lev Ivanov (1834), Yury Grigorovich (1927), and Léonide Massine (1896).

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