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Tamara Karsavina

1885 - 1978

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Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (Russian: Тамара Платоновна Карсавина; 9 March 1885 – 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. After settling in Britain at Hampstead in London, she began teaching ballet professionally and became recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tamara Karsavina has received more than 204,327 page views. Her biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Tamara Karsavina is the 18th most popular dancer (up from 21st in 2019), the 340th most popular biography from Russia (up from 383rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Russian Dancer.

Tamar Karsavina was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer. She was a principal dancer with the Imperial Russian Ballet and was a leading dancer in the Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. She is most famous for being the first prima ballerina assoluta.

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  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DANCERS

Among dancers, Tamara Karsavina ranks 18 out of 116. Before her are Margot Fonteyn, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Maya Plisetskaya, Jean-Georges Noverre, Martha Graham, and Michel Fokine. After her are Galina Ulanova, George Balanchine, Serge Lifar, Alicia Alonso, Carlo Blasis, and Izumo no Okuni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Tamara Karsavina ranks 43. Before her are Luigi Russolo, Kato Svanidze, Tomoyuki Yamashita, Giacomo Matteotti, Eduard Künneke, and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. After her are Will Durant, Romano Guardini, Clementine Churchill, Christian Wirth, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, and Velimir Khlebnikov. Among people deceased in 1978, Tamara Karsavina ranks 34. Before her are Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Nazli Sabri, József Bozsik, Herta Oberheuser, Ed Wood, and Claude François. After her are Jomo Kenyatta, Étienne Gilson, Norman Rockwell, Musa al-Sadr, Charles Boyer, and Giovanni Gronchi.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Tamara Karsavina ranks 340 out of 3,761. Before her are Mikhail Khodorkovsky (1963), Alexander Griboyedov (1795), Vasily Blokhin (1895), Valeri Polyakov (1942), Nikolay Karamzin (1766), and Lev Gumilyov (1912). After her are Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Anatoly Sobchak (1937), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), The French Angel (1903), and Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890).

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Among DANCERS In Russia

Among dancers born in Russia, Tamara Karsavina ranks 5. Before her are Rudolf Nureyev (1938), Anna Pavlova (1881), Maya Plisetskaya (1925), and Michel Fokine (1880). After her are Galina Ulanova (1910), George Balanchine (1904), Alexander Godunov (1949), Agrippina Vaganova (1879), Lev Ivanov (1834), Léonide Massine (1896), and Vladimir Vasiliev (1940).

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