Search Results: Royalty Russian Music/Dance from Sophie Dupre

to her nephew Slava Kschessinsky (Astafiev) (d. 1976), sending him and his wife best wishes for Christmas, "please do not scold me for not writing for so long and for not sending the photographs you asked for... Aunt Mala is guilty... she was so busy, in the end she had her photograph copied and mine and Vova's she forgot. Aunt Mala sends hers as a present... but I beg you to make a copy of mine and Vova's and return them to us as we have not got any more...We are always thinking of you", 2 sides card, Paris, 20th December When Nicholas II set up Matilda as his mistress in 1892, her father, the famous Polish dancer Felix Krzesinski (1823-1905), insisted that Julia keep house with her, and there Nicholas and Matilda gave dinner parties like any married couple. Slava's mother Serafima Astafieva, 'Sima', 1876-1934, graduated from the Imperial Ballet School to the Maryinsky Theatre (now the Kirov) in 1895 and was in Diaghilev's company 1909-1911. In 1916 she opened a… Read More

a stirring military march, with a fine lithographed cover showing the band at the head of the regiment, marching past an imposing building bearing the name of the music's copyright owner, Zimmermann of Leipzig, and the shields of Russia and Italy, with on sides 2 and 8 advertisements in Italian for "the latest marches and dances" and their opening bars, 8 sides 13½" x 10½", published by Carish & Jänichen, Leipzig & Milan,