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.

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

The lavish spectacle made an impression on the young Pavlova, and at the age of nine she was taken by her mother to audition for the renowned Imperial Ballet School.

It was from Petipa himself that Pavlova learned the title role in Paquita, Princess Aspicia in The Pharaoh's Daughter, Queen Nisia in Le Roi Candaule, and Giselle.

When the ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska was pregnant in 1901, she coached Pavlova in the role of Nikya in La Bayadère.

Kschessinska, not wanting to be upstaged, was certain Pavlova would fail in the role, as she was considered technically inferior because of her small ankles and lithe legs.

According to Margot Fonteyn's biography, Pavlova did not like the way her invention looked in photographs, so she would remove it or have the photographs altered so that it appeared she was using a normal pointe shoe.

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

While in London Pavlova was influential in the development of British ballet, most notably inspiring the career of Alicia Markova.

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

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 ).

The Jarabe Tapatío, known in English as the ' Mexican Hat Dance ', gained popularity outside of Mexico when Pavlova created a staged version in pointe shoes, for which she was showered with hats by her adoring Mexican audiences.

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

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

Her book, The Pavlova Story: A Slice of New Zealand ’ s Culinary History, states that the first Australian pavlova recipe was created in 1935 while an earlier version was penned in 1929 in the rural magazine.

A newspaper article from January 1927 claims an American ice-cream was named after Pavlova: " Dame Nellie Melba, of course, has found fame apart from her art in the famous sweet composed of peaches and cream, while Mme.

In 1924, carmaker MG was founded and moved its business alongside the Pavlova Leather Factory in 1929.

Through the 1920s, the school was often on the edge of financial failure, but was of a caliber that prompted Anna Pavlova to call it " the kind of school other schools should follow.

In 1904, Morton was succeeded by manager Alfred Butt, who introduced many innovations to the theatre, including dancers, such as Maud Allan ( including her famous Salomé ) and Anna Pavlova, and elegant pianist-singer Margaret Cooper.

Instead audiences became enchanted with Pavlova and her frail, ethereal look, which fitted the role perfectly, particularly in the scene The Kingdom of the Shades.

Instead, audiences became enthralled with the frail, long-limbed, ethereal-looking Pavlova, and a star was born.

Returning to the United States, Smallens was a conductor or music director at several American music organizations including the Boston Opera Company ( 1911 – 1914 ), the Anna Pavlova Ballet Company ( 1917 – 1919 ), the Chicago Opera Company ( 1919 – 1923 ), the Philadelphia Civic Opera Company ( 1924 – 1930 ), the Philadelphia Orchestra ( 1928 – 1934 ) and the Radio City Music Hall ( 1947 – 1950 ).

* The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise, a book by Austin Mitchell

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.

Pavlova is perhaps most renowned for creating the role of The Dying Swan, a solo choreographed for her by Michel Fokine.

The Gate pub, located on the border of Arkley and Totteridge ( London Borough of Barnet ), has a story, framed on its walls, describing a visit by Pavlova and her dance company.

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

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

Pavlova is made by beating egg whites ( and sometimes salt ) to a very stiff consistency before folding in caster sugar, white vinegar, cornflour, and sometimes vanilla essence, and slow-baking the mixture, similarly to meringue.

* Four Steps to Death, a book written by John Wilson, portrays a Soviet sniper, Yelena Pavlova, as a main character in the Battle of Stalingrad

From 1924 to 1933 he conducted the Stuttgart Philharmonic, and in 1928, Kurtz was enagaged by Anna Pavlova to accompany her dancing, which he did until her death in 1931.

When he was 13 he witnessed a life-changing event when he attended a performance by the legendary Anna Pavlova in the Municipal Theater in Lima, Peru.

* Irina Pavlova about findings by Bushueva

The long white tutu that Pavlova originally danced in, and that the entire female corps de ballet adopted soon after, was designed by Léon Bakst and inspired by a lithograph of Marie Taglioni dressed as a sylph.

Marble bust of Anna Pavlova by Malvina Hoffman, 1925, El Paso Museum of Art

The Half Gallon Quarter Acre Pavlova Paradise was a popular book by Austin Mitchell, published by Whitcombe and Tombs ( Christchurch, 1972 ), with illustrations by Les Gibbard.

Mitchell revisited New Zealand 30 years after writing his original volume, and motivated by the social changes he observed, he penned a sequel entitled Pavlova Paradise Revisited.

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

The Pavlova dessert is believed to have been created in honour of the dancer either during or after one of her tours to Australia and New Zealand in the 1920s.

Pavlov's House ( dom Pavlova ) was a fortified apartment building during the Battle of Stalingrad from 27 September to 25 November 1942.

In the film A Portrait of Giselle Karsavina recalls a " wardrobe malfunction ": during one performance her shoulder straps fell and she accidentally exposed herself, and Pavlova reduced an embarrassed Karsavina to tears.

( The gate was torn down between 1891-97 with the adjaceny city wall, but during construction work on the Metrostation I. P. Pavlova, remainders of the gate were found as well as some tiles with old provincial coats-of arms as well as fragments of a relief with the Bohemian lion which were saved and today stand in the entry of the Metrostation.

After the defeat at Kiev, the detachment saw action at Pavlova during the withdrawal.