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Mathilde Kschessinska

Russian ballet dancer and princess

Born 1872 · LigovoDied 1971FranceRussian Empire
Mathilde Kschessinska
Image: Unknown photographer of the photography department of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Mathilde Kschessinska was a French ballet dancer, dancer and dance teacher, born in 1872 in Ligovo, who died in 1971.

Biography

Mathilde-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinska (31 August [O.S. 19 August] 1872 – 6 December 1971), also known as Princess Romanovskaya-Krasinskaya upon her marriage, was a Polish-Russian ballerina from the noble Krzesiński family. Her father, Felix Kschessinsky, and her brother and sister danced in Saint Petersburg. She was a mistress of the future Emperor Nicholas II of Russia before his marriage, and later the wife of his cousin Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia. She was known in the West as Mathilde Kschessinska or Matilda Kshesinskaya.

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Contemporaries

Vera Trefilova

Vera Trefilova

Russian dancer (1875–1943)

1875–1943
Cléo de Mérode

Cléo de Mérode

French dancer (1875-1966)

1875–1966
Marie van Goethem

Marie van Goethem

French ballet dancer

1865–1935
Maria Kuznetsova

Maria Kuznetsova

singer and dancer (1880–1966)

1880–1966

Facts from Wikidata (Q239246), CC0.