Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Rudolf Nureyev NPG P1225

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bern Schwartz

Born in the former Irkutsk, Siberia (part of the former Soviet Union), Nureyev danced with the Kirov Ballet before he defected to the West in 1961. He joined The Royal Ballet in 1962 and formed an internationally acclaimed partnership with Margot Fonteyn, with whom he danced in Giselle and Swan Lake. In 1963 Frederick Ashton created Marguerite and Armand for them, and two years later they premièred MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet. Nureyev staged La Bayadère for the Company in 1963 and Raymonda in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.