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4 unusual facts about Lydia Sokolova


Frederick Tansley Munnings

Munnings's daughter Hilda Tansley Munnings became a noted ballerina under the name Lydia Sokolova.

Lydia Sokolova

In 1945, Henry Gibbs dedicated to Sokolova his book Affectionately Yours Fanny: Fanny Kemble and the Theatre (Jarrolds Publishers, London, 1945); she had helped him trace "authoritative material" (author's note, p. 8).

She joined Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1913 to become the company's first English ballerina.

Sokolova's most famous role was that of the Chosen Maiden in Léonide Massine's reworking of The Rite of Spring (1920).



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