Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Serge Litavkin NPG x103082

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Russian dancer, Litavkin danced with Lydia Kyasht in Javotte at the Empire in 1913. The following year he accompanied Adeline Genée on her American tour to raise funds for the families of soldiers killed in action and in 1915 they appeared at the London Coliseum in A Dream of Roses and Butterflies and Robert the Devil . His short career ended tragically in October 1915, a few days before he was to dance with Kyasht at the Chiswick Empire, when he shot himself after... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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