Friday, December 11, 2015

2. Paris in 1900

      This, of course, is Paris, France in the year 1900.  This is what Paris looked like when I emigrated in 1923. This is the last place I settled for the rest of my days. Before settling here, I taught for two years in London, Milan, Buenos Aires and Berlin after I left St. Petersburg in 1921.  I settled in Paris because of it's many opportunities for me to teach promising young students. Also, Paris had a very large white emigree community- Russian men, women and children like me that had either left or been exiled from Russia during the Russian Revolution.

Picture:
Web. 11 Dec. 2015. <http://www.balletandopera.com/photos_info/perfomance/mar_ex_vaganov/akad_vaganova.jpg>.

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