Imperial Dancer: Mathilde Kschessinska and the Romanovs (61 page)

22.
   Perry and Pleshakov, 300–1; Bobrov, ‘Posledniya Doch…’

23.
   Perry and Pleshakov, 304, 310

24.
   Perry and Pleshakov, 305, 310

25.
   Sophie Dupré website;
Matilda Malya
video; 20 July & 18 August 1934. Kschessinky letters, NYPL; information from Irina Klyagin

26.
   Bobrov and Kirikov, 123

27.
   Messerer, unpublished memoirs; Bobrov and Kirikov, 123

28.
   Messerer, unpublished memoirs

29.
   Menuhin archives

30.
   Menuhin archives

31.
   
Vospominaniia
, 369; Menuhin archives; interview with Beryl Morina

32.
   Menuhin archives

33.
   Fonteyn, 73

34.
   Menuhin archives

35.
   Interview with Mme Marina von Isenberg

36.
   Interview with Mme Marina von Isenberg; Perry and Pleshakov, 273, 276

37.
   Gray, 146, 159, 163;
Ilyustrirovannany Rossiya
, Paris. 1 August 1931. LRA MS 1363–123. Brotherton Archive, Leeds

38.
   DIP, 236; Menuhin archives

39.
   DIP, 238

40.
   Menuhin archives

41.
   
Daily Sketch
, 14.7.36

42.
   
Sunday Graphic & Sunday News
, 19.7.36

43.
   
The Observer
, 19.7.36

44.
   Quoted in Bentley, 22

45.
   Fonteyn, 60; Bentley, 34

46.
   Bentley, 37

47.
   
Birmingham Gazette
, 16.7.36

48.
   Programme. Royal Opera House. Tuesday 14.7.36

49.
   
Daily Herald; The Times; Evening News
, 15.7.36;
Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News
, 24.7.36

50.
   
Daily Sketch
, 15.7.36

51.
   Atticus in
The Sunday Times
, 27.5.51

52.
   
The Observer
, 19.7.36

53.
   DIP, 239

54.
   30 May 1936. Kschessinsky letters, NYPL

55.
   
The Observer
, 19.7.36

56.
   Sophie Dupré website; Menuhin archives

57.
   Lady Rose McLaren to Beryl Morina, 21 June 2003. By kind permission

58.
   Interview with Beryl Morina

59.
   Interview with Beryl Morina

60.
   Interview with Barbara Gregory; Interview with Beryl Morina;
Matilda Malya
, video

61.
   Fonteyn, 74

62.
   Interview with Beryl Morina; Morina, 141

63.
   Information from Georgia Hiden & Dr Stephen de Angelis; Fonteyn, 74

64.
   Information from Georgia Hiden & Dr Stephen de Angelis; Interview with Beryl Morina

65.
   Sophie Dupré website

66.
   Sophie Dupré website; Bobrov, ‘Posledniya Doch’

67.
   1 April 1937. Kschessinsky letters, NYPL

68.
   24 February 1939. MK to Georgia Hiden. NYPL. French

Chapter Sixteen

  
1.
   3 September 1939. By kind permission of Beryl Morina

  
2.
   Menuhin archives

  
3.
   Menuhin archives; Sophie Dupré website

  
4.
   Menuhin archives

  
5.
   8 February 1940. By kind permission of Beryl Morina

  
6.
   
Tatler
, 6.3.40

  
7.
   14 April 1940. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

  
8.
   Lifar,
My Life
, 212, 174

  
9.
   Lifar,
My Life
, 213

10.
   Perry and Pleshakov, 314

11.
   Perry and Pleshakov, 310, 314–15

12.
   3 August 1945. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

13.
   29 November 1938 & 18 March 1939. Kschessinsky letters, NYPL; Sophie Dupré website

14.
   Sophie Dupré website

15.
   15 September 1946. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL; Lifar,
My Life
, 209

16.
   Crawford, 30

17.
   DIP, 248

18.
   3 August 1945. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

19.
   Van der Kiste and Hall,
Once a Grand Duchess
, 220

20.
   3 August 1945. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

21.
   Menuhin archives

22.
   Menuhin,
A Glimpse of Olympus
, 260–1

23.
   Sophie Dupré website; private information

24.
   Menuhin archives

25.
   Menuhin archives

26.
   4 April 1945. Andrei to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

27.
   20 July 1945. Andrei to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

28.
   4 April 1945. Andrei to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

29.
   DIP, 251

Chapter Seventeen

Part of this chapter is based on information from letters held in the Rothschild Collection at the Harvard Theatre Collection, and on letters from the late Lady Menuhin’s archives.

  
1.
   3 August 1945. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

  
2.
   Menuhin archives

  
3.
   16 June 1946. Mathilde to Rothschild, Harvard; Menuhin archives

  
4.
   3 August 1945. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

  
5.
   Beryl Morina to Lady Rose McLaren. 25 June 2003. By kind permission

  
6.
   15 September 1946. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

  
7.
   Baron de Redé, unpublished memoirs

  
8.
   15 September 1946. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

  
9.
   21 April 1947. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL; Interview with Beryl Morina

10.
   Massie,
Nicholas and Alexandra
, 346

11.
   Menuhin archives; interview with Barbara Gregory

12.
   Interview with Beryl Morina

13.
   27 February 1947. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

14.
   15 September 1946. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

15.
   21 April 1947. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

16.
   1 October 1947. Andrei to Beryl Morina; Sophie Dupré website

17.
   15 November 1947. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

18.
   30 April 1948. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

19.
   30 April 1948. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

20.
   11 August 1949. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

21.
   1 January 1951. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

22.
   11 August 1949. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

23.
   13 September 1948. Sablin Collection, Brotherton Archive, Leeds

24.
   Leonida, 135

25.
   10 August 1950. Infanta Eulalia to Don Alfonso. Montpensier

26.
   21 August 1950. Infanta Eulalia to Don Alfonso. Montpensier

27.
   Chuparron, ‘Liubovnitsa Poslednego…’, 9 August 1948. Infanta Eulalia to Don Alfonso. Montpensier

28.
   16 December 1951. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

29.
   Gregory,
Heroic Harlequin
, 18

30.
   Interview with Barbara Gregory; Gregory,
Heroic Harlequin
, 19

31.
   Gregory,
Heroic Harlequin
, 19, 20; Harrison, ‘Dancing Princess’

32.
   Gregory,
Heroic Harlequin
, 33

33.
   Gregory, ‘Ageless Princess’

34.
   Gregory,
Heroic Harlequin
, 33;
Glasgow Bulletin
, 25.5.51

35.
   Atticus,
Sunday Times
, 27.5.51

36.
   Gregory, ‘Ageless Princess’; Gregory,
Heroic Harlequin
, 35

37.
   Gregory,
Heroic Harlequin
, 35, 37

38.
   Interview with Beryl Morina

39.
   Lady Rose McLaren to Beryl Morina. 21 June 2003. By kind permission

40.
   Karsavina, ‘The First Russian Aurora’

41.
   
Evening Standard
, 24.5.51

42.
   16 December 1951. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL;
The Stage
, 31.5.51; private information

43.
   Gregory,
Heroic Harlequin
, 37

44.
   16 December 1951. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

45.
   1 January 1951. MK to Felia Doubrovska NYPL

46.
   Interview with Carol Relf

47.
   16 December 1951. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

48.
   16 January 1952. Andrei to Rothschild. Harvard

49.
   30 June 1952. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

50.
   21 May 1953. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

51.
   25 December 1952. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

52.
   Chuparron, ‘Liubovnitsa Poslednego…’; private information

53.
   Perry and Pleshakov, 340; Chavchavadze, 243

54.
   Undated note. Andrei to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL; private information

55.
   Kyasht, 226;
The Day
, Ukraine, 27.3.2001; information from Barbara Gregory; 9 & 16 April 1962. MK to Felia Doubrovska NYPL

56.
   
Evening News
and
Evening Standard
, 24.5.54

57.
   Gregory, ‘Ageless Princess’; Gregory,
Heroic Harlequin
,
50–51; Gregory,
Days with Ted
, 314

58.
   Gregory,
Heroic Harlequin
, 52; Gregory,
Days with Ted
, 314–5

59.
   3 June 1954. Andrei to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

60.
   Gregory,
Heroic Harlequin
, 52; 3 June 1954, Andrei to Felia Doubrovska NYPL

61.
   Leonida, 217; information from Georgia Hiden

62.
   Perry and Pleshakov, 339; 5 February 1959. MK to Nadezhda Sablina. Sablin Collection, Brotherton Archive, Leeds

63.
   New Year 1957. Vova to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

64.
   25 February 1957. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

65.
   New Year 1957. Vova to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

66.
   25 February 1957. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

67.
   25 February 1957. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

68.
   25 February 1957. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

69.
   DIP, 272

70.
   25 February 1957. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

71.
   New Year 1957. Vova to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

Chapter Eighteen

This chapter is based on information from letters held in the Rothschild Collection at the Harvard Theatre Collection, and on letters from the late Lady Menuhin’s archives.

  
1.
   Letter to Tchaikovsky Museum, 31 May 1959, in Bobrov and Kirikov, 125

  
2.
   Bobrov and Kirikov, 125

  
3.
   4 November 1957. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

  
4.
   15 September 1960. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

  
5.
   4 November 1957. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL

  
6.
   Bobrov and Kirikov, 127

  
7.
   5 February 1959. MK to Nadezhda Sablina. Sablin Collection, Brotherton Archive, Leeds

  
8.
   15 September 1960. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL

  
9.
   Information from Irina Klyagin

10.
   19 February 1961. MK to Nadezhda Sablina. Sablin Collection, Brotherton Archive, Leeds