By Robert Greskovic Part four in Dance International’s series featuring the personal photo card collection of New York correspondent Robert Greskovic. Here, he compares images from the imperial and soviet eras of Russian ballet. Count Albert, Giselle Danseur noble Viktor Alexandrovich Semyonov graduated from the imperial school in 1912, oddly the only man to do
By Robert Greskovic Featuring three more photo cards from Robert Greskovic’s personal collection. Part one is available here. The card below shows Marie Petipa and Sergei Legat in the Pas Hongrois czardas from the Act 2 ballroom scene of Swan Lake by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. The photo must have been taken after the
By Robert Greskovic The image heading this page is one of a series of photo cards featuring dancers from Russia’s imperial ballet troupes, which were supported by the tsar and presented on turn-of-the-20th-century stages in St. Petersburg and Moscow. Printed on heavy card stock, the photos were meant to be souvenirs, and sometimes sent as