Tamara Karsavina as Zobeida in Scheherazade. Photo by E.O. Hoppe, 1911.
Choreography by Mikhail Fokine.
Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Costumes by Léon Bakst inspired a fashion for harem pants, turbans and floor cushions.
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (1885-1978) was a famous Russian ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was most noted as a Principal Artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev.