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11.
Private information
12.
15 September 1960. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL
13.
O’Connor, ‘Portrait of an Era’
14.
Information from Irina Klyagin
15.
25 January 1961. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL
16.
27 September 1961. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL
17.
Interview with Mme Marina von Isenberg
18.
7 September 1962. MK to Rothschild. Harvard. French
19.
9 & 16 April 1962. MK to Felia Doubrovska, NYPL
20.
Bobrov, ‘Posledniya Doch…’
21.
Matilda Malya
, video;
St Petersburg Times
, 13 July 2001
22.
3 March 1963. Mathilde to R.V. Selby, First National City Bank, New York. Harvard
23.
5 April 1965. Mathilde to Rothschild. Harvard
24.
Fonteyn, 269–70
25.
31 May 1966. MK to Georgia
Hiden. NYPL;
Matilda Malya
, video
26.
29 July 1966. Vova to Rothschild, Harvard
27.
Information from James Munson
28.
15 March 1966. Yuri Bakhrushkin to Felia Doubrovska, Bakhrushkin Collection, NYPL
29.
21 July 1966. Hastings to Vova. Harvard
30.
‘Celebration for Kschessinska’,
Dancing Times
, December 1966
31.
2 November 1966. MK to Georgia Hiden. French. NYPL
32.
October 1966. Vova to Rothschild. Harvard (no date)
33.
October 1966. Copy letter, Hastings to Vova. Harvard (no date)
34.
25 December 1966. MK to Rothschild. Harvard
35.
17 May 1967. MK to Georgia Hiden. NYPL. French
36.
Massie,
Nicholas and Alexandra
, 503
37.
Kurth,
Anastasia
, 356
38.
Kurth,
Anastasia
, 367–8, 365
39.
Gray, 187
40.
Private information
41.
Kurth,
Anastasia
, 369
42.
Saint-Pierre, 594
43.
Kurth,
Anastasia
, 433, n. 15; Saint-Pierre, 594
44.
1 February 1969. Vova to Rothschild. Harvard
45.
17 July 1966. MK to Rothschild. Harvard
46.
4 & 21 February 1969. MK to Georgia Hiden. NYPL
47.
3 May 1970. Vova to Rothschild. Harvard
48.
20 August 1968. Vova to Rothschild. Harvard
49.
6 December 1970. Vova to Rothschild. Harvard
50.
Communication from Mme Natalia Makarova
51.
Dancing Times
, June 1971
52.
Matilda Malya
, video; Scholl
53.
1 September 1971. Vova to Rothschild. Harvard
54.
28 November 1971. Vova to Rothschild, Harvard
55.
6 December 1971. Vova to Rothschild. Harvard
56.
Sunday Telegraph
dance column, 12.12.71
57.
Obituary,
New York Times
, 9.12.71
58.
Obituary,
Dancing Times
, January 1972
59.
11 August 1949. MK to Felia Doubrovska. NYPL
60.
13 December 1971. Vova to Rothschild. Harvard
Postscript
Part of this chapter is based on information from letters in the late Lady Menuhin’s archives.
1.
17 January 1972. Vova to Georgia Hiden. NYPL
2.
Private information
3.
11 August & 23 December 1972, 20 January 1973. Vova to Georgia Hiden. NYPL
4.
23 December 1972. Vova to Georgia Hiden. NYPL
5.
Private information
6.
Matilda Malya
, video
7.
Bobrov and Kirikov, 131–4
8.
de Angelis
9.
Bobrov and Kirikov, 151–2
10.
Daily Telegraph
, 13.7.2001
11.
Daily Telegraph
, 13.7.2001
12.
Daily Telegraph
, 16.7.2001;
Russian Horizon
, vol. 2, no. 2
13.
Varenik,
Dacha
, 40
14.
Varenik,
Dacha
, 40–2
15.
de Angelis
16.
Varenik,
Dacha
, 43–4
17.
Varenik,
Dacha
, 6
18.
Scholl; Information from Irina Klyagin
19.
Haskell,
Diaghilev
, 240
I ARCHIVES & MANUSCRIPT SOURCES
Archives of the Fundación Infantes Duques de Montpensier (in Spanish)
Archives of the late Lady Menuhin (in French and English)
Baron de Redé, Alexis, unpublished memoirs
Bibliotek St Moritz, Switzerland
Brotherton Archive, Leeds University – The Sablin Collection (in Russian)
Harvard University – The Diaries of Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich, by kind permission of the Estate of the late Paul Ilyinsky
Kschessinska, Mathilde. Unpublished pages from her Russian memoirs. By kind permission of Irina Klyagin (in Russian)
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Messerer, Soulamith, unpublished memoirs. By kind permission of Mikhail Messerer (in Russian)
New York Public Library Dance Division:
—— (S) *MGZMD 93. Felia Doubrovska Collection. Folders 26–30 (in Russian)
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—— *ZBD 161. Gabriel Astruc Papers. Folder 20
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—— Fond 601. The personal archive of Nicholas II. Diaries 1892–4
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—— Fond 684. The personal archive of Grand Duke Sergei Michaelovich
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