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| Circa 1916. |
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (March 10, 1885, St. Petersburg – May 26, 1978, Beaconsfield), Russian ballerina, celebrated for her beauty as well as her great artistry, she was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later, famously, of the Ballets Russes. After settling in England, she became important as a teacher and one of the founders of modern British ballet.
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| Photograph by Bertram Park, circa 1910s. |
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| As the Firebird, with Adolph Bolm as Ivan Tsarevich in L'Oiseau de Feu (The Firebird), photographed by Bassano, June 27, 1912. |
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| In an autochrome by Baron Adolph de Meyer, 1908. |
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| With Nijinsky in Le Spectre de la rose, 1911. |
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| In the title role of Thamar, a drawing by John Singer Sargent, 1912. |
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