Genuine pointe shoes and dress of ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya from the State Archives of the Russian Federation can be seen at the “First Position” exhibition. Russian ballet”. According to socialbites.ca correspondent, the exhibition opened on February 21 at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall in St. Petersburg.
The description of the dress states that Kshesinskaya wore it to classes at the ballet school in the 1880s.
The reason for the exhibition was the 350th anniversary of the Russian ballet celebrated on 17 February. Exhibition, St. Petersburg, Moscow and other regions of Russia presents more than a thousand exhibits from 40 museums, archives and libraries. These include paintings by Mikhail Vrubel and Zinaida Serebryakova, the tutus used by Galina Ulanova for the Dying Swan party, personal belongings by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Agrippina Vaganova and Alexander Benois, Russian Seasons posters, archive videos and photographs.
The exhibition was organized by the Manege Central Exhibition Hall and the Planet9 Bureau with the support of the Presidential Cultural Initiatives Fund.
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