Anna Pavlova

Anna Pavlovna Pavlova ( Анна Павловна Павлова, actually Russian Анна Матвеевна Павлова Anna Matveyevna Pavlova, Anna Pavlova in Western languages ​​often transcribed; * 31 Januarjul / February 12 1881greg in Saint Petersburg, .. † January 23, 1931 in The Hague), was a Russian champion dancer of classical ballet.

Life

Anna Pavlova visited the St. Petersburg theater technical school and belonged from 1899 to the ensemble of the local Mariinsky Theatre. She danced in The Nutcracker, Raymonda, Giselle, La Bayadère, inter alia, under Michel Fokine danced major roles, including Les Sylphides and in Egyptian Nights. 1907 Fokine staged for them the well-known solo The Dying Swan.

Guest appearances from 1908 throughout Europe made ​​Pavlova known internationally. As Sergei Diaghilev in 1909 founded Les Ballets Russes in Paris, Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova took over the leading roles. The Ballets Russes became one of the most famous and most successful ballet companies of its time.

1910, she remained permanently in London. While they still went on tour, she was photographed, among others, of the Berlin Society photographer Frieda Riess and outlined by Ernst Oppler. On January 23, 1931, she died during their farewell tour at the age of 49 years of pneumonia in a room at the Hôtel des Indes in The Hague. The urn with her ashes were buried in the cemetery Golders Green Cemetery in London's Hampstead.

Trivia

The favorite pastry of Australians and New Zealanders is Pavlova, a cake made ​​of meringue. This dessert was so named in honor of her after she appeared in several guest appearances in both countries in 1926 and 1929. In which country the dessert was invented, is controversial.

On a Russian silver coin of 1993, a portrait of Pavlova is shown.

A McDonnell Douglas MD -11 ( built: 31/8/1995 ) of the Dutch airline " KLM - Royal Dutch Airline" with the symbol " PH -KCH " bears her name.