Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Hilda Butsova (née Boot) NPG x26643

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Butsova was born Hilda Boot in Nottingham. She studied at Stedman's Dancing Academy and appeared as première danseuse with fellow students in two ballets, Les Poupées and Les Saisons d'Amour at the Court Theatre in 1912. She received further training from Volinine and Cecchetti and was selected to appear with the Imperial Russian Ballet company during its 1911 season at Covent Garden. The following year she joined Anna Pavlova's company and became her understudy. Eventually she was appointed ballerina and she remained with... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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