ANNA PAVLOVA sepia toned original MISHKIN photo 1913
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Offering an Original Vintage photo of the renowned prima ballerina ANNA PAVLOVA photographed by famed photographer MISHKIN and dated 1913. It is signed in the print in the lower left corner...Except for slightly bumped corners, , The photo is in excellent condition and measures approx. 6 " x 8 " and is printed on double weight photographic paper.the reverse has some toning from age......It is stamped " ANNA PAVLOVA and her BALLET RUSSE " Anna Pavlovna Pavlova ( 31 January 1881 ( Old Style )/ 12 February 1881 ( New Style ) - 23 January 1931 ) Pavlova was born in St. Petersburg , Russia two months premature. She later claimed her father had died when she was two years old. She was rejected at the age of eight from the Imperial Ballet School because she was too small for her age and was asked to return when she reached her tenth year. At age ten, she entered the school, and in April 1891 danced in her very first performance as a cupid in Marius Petipa 's A Fairy Tale . She trained under some of the greatest teachers of the day: Christian Johansson , Pavel Gerdt , Nikolai Legat , and the great Ballerina Ekaterina Vazem (creator of the role of Nikiya in La Bayadère ), and graduated in 1899 at age 16, being allowed to enter the Imperial Ballet a rank ahead of corps de ballet as a coryphée . She rose through the ranks quickly, as she was
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