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Finding Aid for Alexandra Fedorova papers, 1930-1970.

Guide to the Alexandra Fedorova 1884-1972 Papers, 1930-1970

(S) *MGZMD 110
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Processed by:
Irina Klyagin
Date Completed:
December 1995
Encoded by:
Apex Data Services; revised by Dan Santamaria
Date Completed:
September 26, 2003; revised 2004
Encoding funded by the generous support of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.

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Table of Contents

Descriptive Summary Table of Contents

Title
Alexandra Fedorova Papers, 1930-1970
Collection ID
(S) *MGZMD 110
Creator
Fedorova, Alexandra
Size
117 items in 9 legal size folders in 1 box
Repository
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Jerome Robbins Dance DivisionNew York, New York
Abstract

Administrative Information Table of Contents

Source

Ms. Irene Fokine.

Access

The collection is open to research.

Restrictions on Use

For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Library for the Performing Arts.

Preferred Citation

Alexandra Fedorova Papers, (S) *MGZMD 110, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Biographical History Table of Contents

Aleksandra Aleksandrovna (Alexandra) Fedorova-Fokine, 1884-1972, Michel Fokine's sister-in-law, graduated from the Maryinsky Ballet School in 1902, and was accepted into the Maryinsky Ballet company. From 1914 to 1917 she also performed as a prima-ballerina at the “Troitsky Miniuature Theatre” sponsored by her husband, Aleksandr Fokine, choreographer's elder brother.

In 1922 she was laid off from the Maryinsky Ballet and the family moved to Riga, Latvia, where she was appointed as a ballet teacher and choreographer at the National Riga Opera.

In 1936 [1937-?] after her husband's death and after she was fired by the pro-nazi Latvian government, the family moved to the United States where she opened a ballet school.

Alexandra Fedorova-Fokine died in a nursing home in New Jersey in 1972.

Scope and Content Note Table of Contents

The papers of Alexandra Fedorova are comprised of letters and telegrams, mainly from the 1930s, Riga, as well as bills and window cards of her ballet school in New Jersey. The majority of the correspondence is in Russian. For the brief translation see Appendix.

Container List Table of Contents

   
Correspondence Table of Contents
b. 1   f. 1    
Telegrams, 1930; 35
(23 item)
b. 1   f. 2    
Letters, postcards 1930, 37, 70, n.d.
(6 Items)
   
Ballet Studio Table of Contents
b. 1   f. 3    
Ballet Studio window cards
(2 Items)
b. 1   f. 4    
Bills and Checks, 1957
(80 Items)

[phone, electricity, gas, ballet shoes]

b. 1   f. 5    
Congratulations on 10th Anniversary Working at the Latvia Opera Theatre from the Union of Russian Teachers in Latvia, 1935
(1 Item)
b. 1   f. 6    
Congratulations on 10th Anniversary Working at the Latvia Opera Theatre from the Russian Theatre Society of Latvia, 1935 [two pieces]
(1 Item)
b. 1   f. 7    
Giselle Scenario
(1 Item)

[Typed notes for Giselle, published by Dance Congress, dated July, 1956. Lists measure numbers with floor patterns and choreographic descriptions attributed to Alexandra Fedorova-Fokine.]

b. 1   f. 8    
Unidentified Drawing
(1 Item)
b. 1   f. 9    
Social security account card
(1 Item)

Separated Material Table of Contents

A book of caricatures on German social-nationalism and Soviet socialism by Civis (?), titled Heroes of Our Time, published in Riga, November 1933. In Russian.

Added to the NYPL Slavic Division.

Slav

Reserve

97-8927

Translator's note:Telegrams to Alexandra Fedorova-Fokine in Russian and Latvian, and telegrams to Fedorova-Fokine and her husband, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Fokine (Michel Fokine's elder brother), a letter to Alexandra Fedorova-Fokine and a bookI. February 16, 1930 Ten telegrams in Russian with congratulations on Fedorova's and Fokine's silver wedding anniversary.March 19, 1935 Ten telegrams to A. Fedorova-Fokine, four in Latvian, six in Russian with congratulations on her 10th anniversary at the Riga Opera Theatre. Telegrams addressed to Riga's National Opera, Latvia where she was teaching dance classes. Three telegrams without date. One in Russian with congratulations on the 10th anniversary of the Fedorova's ballet studio from the Society for the Russian actors in Latvia. Another also in Russian with congratulations on a jubilee (unclear which one). The third is in LatvianII. A letter from the unidentified person to Alexandra Fedorova-Fokine. The letter signed: Nina. Fedorova's daughter Irine is mentioned by her pet name Rena. The letter is written seven years after Fedorova-Fokine has been fired from Riga's National Opera because of nationalistic tendencies in Latvia at that time. According to Irine Fokine it happened after her father's death, in 1936. So the letter could be dated as from 1943 or 1944 Postcard to Michel Fokine requesting permission to stage his Carnival, no date, unsigned.

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