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Thursday and Lydia Kyasht
Born on
March 25, 1885, in St. Petersburg, Lydia Kyasht was the daughter of dancers George
Kyasht and Agaffia Poubiloff. Her brother, also named George, had a career as a
ballet dancer too.
Lydia Kyasht
studied at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, and went on to perform
with both the Maryinsky and Bolshoi companies. In 1908 she moved to England,
performing at the Empire Theatre. She also danced with the Ballet Russes.
Lydia
Kyaksht married Alexis A. Ragosin, a military officer from St. Petersburg. They
had a daughter, Lydia, carried on the family tradition, becoming a dancer and a
choreographer.
In the
United States, where she appeared in a Broadway production called The Whirl
of the World. She also performed
in two silent films: Foolish Monte
Carlo (also titled The Black Spider, 1920), and The
Dance of the Moods (1924).
She also
published a memoir, Romantic Reflections, in 1929.
After World
War I she returned to London and opened a ballet school.
She died on
January 11, 1959, aged 72.
From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Secret #:
“Lydia Kyasht was described by
one critic as the World's Most Beautiful
Dancer”.
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