Days Gone By

Jul 5 2012
4:34 am

Pavel Gerdt in Le Poisson d’or, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1867.

Posted 10 months ago
#1860s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #history #ballerina #ballet #dancer #pavel gerdt #st. petersburg #russia

11 notes

Jul 1 2012
10:20 pm

Publicity shot of the original cast of Tchaikovsky’s ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, St Petersburg, Russia, 1890.

Posted 10 months ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #history #ballet #ballerinas #ballerina #st. petersburg #russia #the sleeping beauty #tchaikovsky

29 notes

Jun 30 2012
4:57 pm

Elizaveta Gerdt, Elsa Vill, and Pierre Vladimirov in the “Paquita” Pas de Trois, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1905.

Posted 10 months ago
#1900s #vintage #history #ballet #ballerina #paquita #st. petersburg #russia #dancer #dancing

67 notes

Jun 30 2012
9:08 am

Left to right: Stanislava Belinskaya as Clara, Lydia Rubtsova as Marianna and Vassily Stukolkin as Fritz, in the original production of The Nutcracker. Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1892.

Posted 10 months ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #history #st. petersburg #russia #the nutcracker #christmas #ballet #ballerina #ballerinas #dancer

15 notes

Jun 30 2012
8:29 am

Mariia Anderson in the ballet “Cinderella”. St. Petersburg, Russia, 1893.

Posted 10 months ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #history #cinderella #ballet #ballerina #st. petersburg #russia #mariia anderson

10 notes

Jun 30 2012
7:44 am

Students of the Imperial Ballet School (today known as the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet) costumed for the Mazurka des enfants from the ballet Paquita, ca. 1900.

Posted 10 months ago
#1900s #vintage #history #st. petersburg #russia #ballet #children #ballerina #ballerinas #paquita #ballet school

9 notes

Jun 30 2012
5:14 am

Carlotta Brianza and Paul Gerdt in the 1890 production of “Sleeping Beauty” by the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Posted 10 months ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #history #carlotta brianza #paul gerdt #ballet #ballerina #ballerinas #dancer #sleeping beauty #st. petersburg #russia #children

22 notes

Jun 30 2012
4:26 am

Pierina Legnani in “Cinderella,” St. Petersburg, Russia, 1893.

Posted 10 months ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #hsitory #ballerina #ballet #cinderella #st. petersburg #russia #pierina legnani

22 notes

Jun 30 2012
2:15 am

Virginia Zucchi in the title role of “Petipa,” St. Petersburg, Russia, 1886.

Posted 10 months ago
#1880s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #history #ballerina #ballet #dancer #virginia zucchi #petipa #st. petersburg #russia

5 notes

Jun 30 2012
1:24 am

Olga Preobrazhenskaya as the Sugar Plum Fairy and Nikolai Legat as Prince Coqueluche in the Grand pas de deux in an early production of The Nutcracker. Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia, ca. 1900.

Posted 10 months ago
#1900s #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #history #ballerina #ballet #dancer #dancers #st. petersburg #russia #the nutcracker

10 notes