Tamara Karsavina
Tamara Karsavina (c. 1912)
Born	Tamara Platonovna Karsavina ( 1885-03-10 ) 10 March 1885 St. Petersburg , Russia
Died	26 May 1978 (1978-05-26) (aged 93) Beaconsfield , Buckinghamshire , Britain
Occupation	Ballet dancer

Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (10 March 1885 ? 26 May 1978) was a Russian ballerina . She began her career in the Imperial Russian Ballet and later danced with the Diaghilev's Ballets Russes .

Karsavina created the title role in The Firebird , the Ballerina in Petrushka , and The Young Girl in Le Spectre de la Rose . After she settled in Hampstead , London , she began teaching ballet professionally. She assisted in setting up The Royal Ballet , and was a founding member of the Royal Academy of Dance. Her pupils included Dame Alicia Markova and Dame Margot Fonteyn . She wrote two books: the autobiography Theatre Street (1930) and the dance textbook Classical Ballet: the flow of movement (1962).

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