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Tamara Platonovna Karsavina ((ロシア語:Тама́ра Плато́новна Карса́вина), 10 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 Serge 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. She assisted in the establishment of The Royal Ballet and was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Dance, which is now the world's largest dance-teaching organisation. ==Family and early life== Tamara Karsavina was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the daughter of Platon Konstantinovich Karsavin and his wife, Anna Iosifovna (née Khomyakova).〔Horowitz, Dawn Lille. ''Michel Fokine,'' New York: Twayne Publishers, 1985: p. 4〕〔Eliot, Karen. ''Dancing Lives: Five Female Dancers from the Ballet d'Action to Merce Cunningham,'' Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007〕 A principal dancer and mime with the Imperial Ballet, Platon also taught as an instructor at the Imperial Ballet School (Vaganova Ballet Academy). He counted among his students Michel Fokine, a future dancing partner and paramour of his daughter.〔Horowitz, 1985〕〔Eliot, 2007〕 Karsavina's older brother Lev Platonovich Karsavin (1882–1952) became a religious philosopher and medieval historian.〔Taruskin, Richard. ''Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions, Vol II,'' University of California Press: Los Angeles, 1996〕 Her niece, Marianna Karsavina, married Ukrainian author and artistic patron Pyotr Suvchinsky.〔Taruskin, 1996〕 Through her mother, Karsavina was distantly related to the religious poet and co-founder of the Slavophile movement, Aleksey Khomyakov.〔Chamberlain, Lesley. ''Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia,'' New York: Atlantic Books, 2006〕 Karsavina's father had once been the favorite pupil of Marius Petipa, teacher and choreographer, but their relationship deteriorated in later years.〔Eliot, 2007〕 Karsavina suspected that Petipa was behind the "political intrigue" that resulted in her father being forced into early retirement.〔Eliot, 2007〕 Though Platon continued to teach at the Imperial Ballet School, and also retained some private pupils, he was disillusioned by the experience.〔Eliot, 2007〕 Karsavina later wrote: ::I think the blow to their pride meant more than financial considerations to them. After all, we always lived from hand to mouth, never looking ahead, spending more when there was something to spend, fitting in somehow when there wasn't. Father had reason to expect his being kept for the second service, like other artists of his standing. He was sore at heart parting with the stage.〔Eliot, 2007〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tamara Karsavina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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