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.
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.
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