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Persons / Kschessinska Mathilde (Maria) Felixovna actor
Kschessinska M.F., (1872-1971), ballet dancer

KSCHESSINSKA Mathilde (Maria) Felixovna (1872, Ligovo, near St. Petersburg - 1971), ballet dancer and teacher. A student of C. I. Ioganson, she graduated from the Theatre School in 1890 to be immediately admitted into the Mariinsky Theatre

Angliisky Avenue

ANGLIISKY AVENUE, from 1771 - Aglinskaya Perspective or Anglinsky Avenue; from 1846 it possessed its present-day name; in 1918-94 - Maklina, or MacLean, Avenue in honour of English socialist John MacLean (1879-1923) elected an honorary deputy

Art Nouveau

ART NOUVEAU (from the French for "new art"), the style in architecture and art of the late19th - early 20th centuries. In St. Petersburg, it developed from the end of 1890s through to the early 1910s

Gogen von A.I. (1856-1914), architect.

GOGEN Alexander Ivanovich von (1856-1914, Petrograd), architect, member of the Academy of Architcture (1895). He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts (1883). Among his early works, there are mansions of N.K

Ivanov L.I., (1834-1901), choreographer

IVANOV Lev Ivanovich (1834-1901, St. Petersburg), ballet dancer and choreographer. He graduated from Petersburg Theatre School in 1852. He studied under F. Malovern, E. Gredlu, and J. Petipa Father. The first classical dancer of St

Kschessinska Mansion

KSCHESSINSKA MANSION (2 Kuybysheva Street /1 Kronverksky Avenue), a modernist architectural monument. The building was constructed in 1904-06 (architect. A. I. von Gogen) for ballet dancer M.F. Kschessinska

Kueba Restaurant

KUEBA (16 Bolshaya Morskaya Street). A restaurant opened in 1887 on the premises of the Cafe de Paris, operating from the 1850s and belonging to restaurateur Z.P. Kueba

Mariinsky Theatre

MARIINSKY THEATRE, State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre (1 Teatralnaya Square), which takes its origin from the Russian court company established in 1783 "not only for comedies and tragedies, but for operas also"

Petipa М.I., (1818-1910), choreographer

PETIPA Marius Ivanovich (1818-1910), French ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher. He studied under his father J. Petipa and A. Vestris. Invited to St. Petersburg as a mime dancer in 1847, he danced until 1869. A teacher in St

Public Halls (entry)

PUBLIC HALLS, a special premise for informal mass events. The first public hall was arranged in banker A.A. Ral's house (On the Moika River Embankment, beside Red Bridge; not preserved)

Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet

VAGANOVA ACADEMY OF RUSSIAN BALLET situated at 2 Zodchego Rossi Street. It was founded as the Dancing School in 1738 on the initiative of J. B. Lande, a French choreographer and teacher

Volkonsky S.M. (1860-1937), dramatist

VOLKONSKY Sergey Mikhailovich (1860-1937), Prince, dramatist and critic, pedagogue, expert on acting technique theory, historian, writer, and Staff Master (1901). Graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology at St