Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Tamara Karsavina as the Firebird and Adolph Bolm as Ivan Tsarevich in 'L'Oiseau de Feu' (The Firebird) NPG x85799

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

The Russian-born ballet dancer Karsavina trained at the Imperial Ballet School and began her career at the Maryinsky Theatre, St Petersburg. She was an original member of the Diaghilev company and created many roles including those in Mikhail Fokine's ballets Les Sylphides (1909), Firebird (1910) and Petrushka (1911). She also appeared at the London Coliseum, where she danced divertissements, and continued to perform with the Maryinsky until 1918. She undertook recital tours across Europe in the 1920s and was Vice-President of the Royal Academy... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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