Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Lydia Kyasht NPG x123215

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

The Russian-born ballet dancer Kyasht studied at the St Petersburg Imperial Ballet school and joined the Maryinsky Theatre in 1902. Kyasht moved to London and was engaged by the Empire Theatre in 1908, she made her debut in London in a series of divertissements with Adolf Bolm. She became principal dancer at the Empire Theatre, 1908-13. She appeared as Swanilde in Coppélia (1908) and premiered in Sylvia (1911). In 1912 she danced with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, whom she rejoined in 1919, when she alternated the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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