Tamara Toumanova: from baby ballerina to ballerina assoluta (Illustrated)

To Tamara Toumanova's contemporaries, everything in her appearance conveyed the quintessence of the ideal Russian ballerina - spectacular and lyrical, magnificent and dramatic. Her extraordinary birth - in a cargo train carriage between Yekaterinburg and Tyumen, during the troubled time of the Russian revolution and exile - was mentioned in every article about her, therefore adding to her name an even more exotic feel. This research of Toumanova's dancing career (1929-1969) is based on reviews and interviews in periodicals and specialist magazines and books.