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| Title | Tatiana Riabouchinska, dancer, 1941 |
| Photographer | Kassowitz, Ernst
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| Date | 1941 |
| Historical Background | Tatiana Riabouchinska was born in Moscow on May 23, 1917. She was educated at the Fenelon School in Paris and her ballet training started with Alexander Volinine and Mathilda Kschessinska. Riabouchinska made her debut in Paris with the Chauve-Souris revue. In 1932, at the request of George Balanchine, she joined the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo as one of the three baby ballerinas, she was 15. Tatiana married David Lichine. Riabouchinska settled in Los Angeles and passed away on August 24, 2000 only hours after teaching her final ballet class. |
| Notes | Sketch after a photograph.
Caption on image: Ernst Kassowitz, Seattle, 1941
PH Coll 215 |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Ballerinas
Portrait drawings
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| Subjects (LCSH) | Riabouchinska, Tatiana--Portraits
Dance teachers
Russian Americans
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| Location Depicted | United States |
| Digital Collection | Modern Photographers Collection
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| Order Number | MPH458 |
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Please cite the Order Number when ordering. |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division. |
| Repository Collection | Ernst Kassowitz Collection. PH Coll 215 |
| Object Type | Drawing |
| Physical Description | b&w ; 8 x 10 inches |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from a photographic print using a Microtek Scanmaker 9600XL at 100 dpi in JPEG format at compression rate 3 and resized to 768x600 ppi. 2004. |
