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When Lydia Lopokova, the star of the Ballets Russes, pranced and swirled her way from the boards of the London stage to the bed of John Maynard Keynes, the economist, his Bloomsbury-group friends
Lydia Lopokova was born in St. Petersburg on 21st October 1892. Her father, worked as the chief usher at the Alexandrinsky Theatre. Her mother, Rosalia Constanza Karlovna Douglas, was the descendent of a Scottish engineer and had a strong interest in dancing. Lopokova trained at the Imperial Ballet School and soon came under the influence of ...
1892–1981. Lydia Lopokova trained as a ballerina at the Imperial School of Ballet in St Petersburg. Her appearance with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1918 took London by storm. Maynard Keynes became captivated by her childlike gaiety and idiosyncratic English, and after the failure of Diaghilev’s company, arranged accommodation for her in ...
22 de fev. de 2019 · Lydia Vasilievna Lopokova was born in St Petersburg and had an illustrious career as a ballerina with the Mariinsky Theatre. She left Russia in 1910 for Paris and then America. She received great acclaim for her dancing, but she had a desire to be an actress and pursued that goal, even though English was not her native tongue. She become very popular in New York and was known for her wit and ...
Lydia Lopokova (1891—1981) ballet dancer Quick Reference (b St Petersburg, 21 Oct. 1891; d Seaford, 8 Jun. 1981)
11 de jan. de 2020 · Keynes, John Maynard, 1883-1946 -- Correspondence, Lopokova, Lydia, 1892-1981 -- Correspondence, Economists -- Great Britain -- Correspondence Publisher New York : Scribner Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English
17 de jul. de 2021 · Yet when John Maynard Keynes went, night after night, to watch Lydia Lopokova perform with the Ballets Russes in London in 1921, they fell ecstatically in love. It was, Keynes wrote, “a dreadful ...
