| Daughter
of Platon Konstantinovich Karsavin [1854 - 1922] (some
reports state Alexander Gorsky.)
One of many Tamara's in the Ballet field and was a very
successful Prima Ballerina in her time. Was educated at
the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg, under such teachers
as Cecchetti, Johansson, Gerdt and Legat as well as graduating
there in 1902.
Karsavina
is best known from 1909 to 1922 as the leading ballerina
of Sergey Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. In 1920, Tamara helped
found the Royal Academy of Dancing, and in 1930 the Camargo
Society. In the 1940s she coached the Sadler’s Wells
company.
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