The company included the best young Russian dancers, among them Anna Pavlova, Adolph Bolm, Vaslav Nijinsky, Tamara Karsavina and Vera Karalli, and their first night on 19 May 1909 was a sensation.

* January 23 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina ( b. 1881 )

* February 12 – Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina ( d. 1931 )

An example of this would be at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games to Anna Pavlova during the Vault event final on her second vault.

Anna Pavlova in Giselle, wearing a Romantic tutu

ANZAC biscuits and the pavlova are considered by some to be Australian national foods, although while the oldest known named recipe for pavlova is from New Zealand, its often said in the Australian history that the dessert took its name from Anna Pavlova at the Esplanade Hotel in Perth during a tour of the state where she danced " as light as air " in reference to the light meringue.

In 1909 Diaghilev took a company of Russian opera and ballet stars to Paris featuring Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova.

Anna Pavlova (; – January 23, 1931 ) was a Russian ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th century.

< center > Photographic postcard of Anna Pavlova as the Princess Aspicia in the Petipa / Pugni The Pharaoh's Daughter, Saint Petersburg, c. 1910

< center > Anna Pavlova in the Fokine / Saint-Saëns The Dying Swan, Saint Petersburg, 1905

The house was featured in the film " Anna Pavlova ".

Anna Pavlova arriving in The Hague in 1927 While touring in The Hague, Pavlova was told that she had pneumonia and required an operation.

" Her death came in the Hotel Des Indes in The Hague, which displays a wall plaque and has a cigar lounge named the Anna Pavlova Library in her memory.

Anna Pavlova was cremated, and her ashes placed in a columbarium at Golders Green Crematorium, where her urn was subsequently adorned with her ballet shoes ( which since then have been stolen ).

Anna Pavlova was able to complete 37 turns while on top of a moving elephant while on a tour in China.

A frosted image of Anna Pavlova appears in the stem of each glass.

Pavlova's life was depicted in the 1983 film Anna Pavlova.

File: The Butterfly costume design for Anna Pavlova by L. Bakst ( 1913 ). jpg | The Butterfly ( Costume Design by Leon Bakst for Anna Pavlova ), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

File: Victoria Palace Theatre London 2011 4. jpg | London, Victoria Palace Theatre, rooftop statue of Anna Pavlova

* Anna Pavlova in Australia – 1926, 1929 Tours-programs and ephemera held by the National Library of Australia

* Creative Quotations from Anna Pavlova

The community received its present name circa 1860, and is named after Anna Seguine, a descendant of French Huguenots who were among the South Shore's earliest settlers ; this settlement is also responsible for the neighborhood immediately to the southwest of Annadale being named Huguenot, and the Seguine family also lends its name to Seguine Avenue, the principal north-south thoroughfare on the east side of Prince's Bay, the next neighborhood southwest of Huguenot.

Mrs. Child, true to her word, helped place Anna and her four children with a Quaker family named Hathaway near Canandaigua, New York.

This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.

In order to prepare the role of an important old actress, a theatre student interviews three actresses who were her pupils: an international diva ( Glòria Marc, played by Núria Espert ), a television star ( Assumpta Roca, played by Rosa Maria Sardà ) and a dubbing director ( Maria Caminal, played by Anna Lizaran ).

Bronson described her as " a very fine healthful child, much more so than Anna was at birth.

She purchased a house for her sister Anna which had been the last home of Henry David Thoreau, now known as the Thoreau-Alcott House.

Louisa and her parents moved in with Anna as well.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

This request was granted and Anna then manifested her true theatrical and manipulative capabilities:

Straboromanos tried to give her his cross, but for Anna this was not sufficiently large enough so that all bystanders could witness the oath.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

As a measure intended to keep the support of the Doukai, Alexios restored Constantine Doukas, the young son of Michael VII and Maria, as co-emperor and a little later betrothed him to his own first-born daughter Anna, who moved into the Mangana Palace with her fiancé and his mother.

Dalassena was the effective administrator of the Empire during Alexios ' long absences in military campaigns: she was constantly at odds with her daughter-in-law and had assumed total responsibility for the upbringing and education of her granddaughter Anna Komnene.

Although he had crowned his son John II Komnenos co-emperor at the age of five in 1092, John's mother Irene Doukaina wished to alter the succession in favor of her daughter Anna and Anna's husband, Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.

In 1906, Berg met the singer Helene Nahowski, daughter of a wealthy family ( said by some to be in fact the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from his liaison with Anna Nahowski ); despite the outward hostility of her family, the two were married on May 3, 1911.

Aldona ( baptized Ona or Anna ; her pagan name Aldona is known only from the writings of Maciej Stryjkowski ; ca.

A trained teacher, Anna was excited by the program and bought a set of blocks for her family.

Anna Douglass remained a loyal supporter of her husband's public work, even though Douglass ' relationships with Julia Griffiths and Ottilie Assing, two women he was professionally involved with, caused recurring speculation and scandals.

When doctors could not help Alexei, the Tsarina looked everywhere for help, ultimately turning to her best friend, Anna Vyrubova, to secure the help of the charismatic peasant healer Rasputin in 1905.

In her Alexiad, Anna Komnene provides a description of an incendiary weapon, which was used by the Byzantine garrison of Dyrrhachium in 1108 against the Normans.

In 1891, Westcott's correspondence with Anna Sprengel suddenly ceased, and he received word from Germany either that she was dead or that her companions did not approve of the founding of the Order and no further contact was to be made.

Hedwig and her daughter-in-law, Henry's II widow Anna of Bohemia, established a Benedictine abbey at the site of the battle in Legnickie Pole, settled with monks coming from Opatovice in Bohemia.