Autograph request
Postcard sent by Bray to Thamar Karsavina on 17th June 1933 asking for her autograph.
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (Russian: Тама́ра Плато́новна Карса́вина, 10 March 1885 - 26 May 1978) was a Russian prima ballerina, renowned for her beauty, who was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and later of the Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev. After settling in Britain at Hampstead in London, she began teaching ballet professionally and became recognised as one of the founders of modern British ballet. She assisted in the establishment of The Royal Ballet and was a founder member of the Royal Academy of Dance, which is now the world's largest dance-teaching organisation.