Bessmertnyi Lebed (Immortal Swan: Dedicated to Anna Pavlova to the 25th Anniversary of Her Death in 1931-1956)
New York: Niva, 1956. First and the only edition ever printed. Original publisher's hard cover. Item #428
Oblong Quarto. 88 pages: 128 photographic illustrations. Text in Russian. A very good copy.
Scarce publication. Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (1881-1931) was a renowned ballerina from Russia who gained prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was an influential artist in both the Imperial Russian Ballet and Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Pavlova is best known for her role in creating The Dying Swan and as the first ballerina to tour ballet globally with her own company.
Irina Evgenyevna Saburova (1907-1979) was a Russian writer, poet, translator, and magazine editor. She was born in Riga, Latvia, where she lived and studied until 1943. She began writing at a young age and wrote her first story when she was only eight. Saburova is known for her fairy-tale novellas and wrote historical and anti-utopian novels. From the 1940s to the 1970s, she gave lectures and recitals in various cities worldwide, including Bern, Switzerland, New York, Washington DC, and Philadelphia.
The album features illustrations that include some of the photographs from the 1924 Hollywood film "The Immortal Swan," which featured Anna Pavlova and newsreel footage of her with swans.
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