ANDREI VLADIMIROVICH

(Grand Duke,1879-1956, Russian Major-General, Grandson of Tsar Alexander II, Cousin of Nicholas II) and his wife  Princess Matilda Maria KSCHESSINSKA , (1872-1971, Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the Imperial Ballet, Mistress of Nicholas II when Tsesarevich) Autograph letter in Russian with translation, signed 'Andrei', also signed 'Aunt Mala', to her nephew Slava Astafiev

(d. 1976), sending “our heartiest felicitations to you and your wife for the approaching festive season, with ... affectionate greetings to you both and to your Sima”, French New Year’s card with skiing scene on verso, 4½” x 2½”, no place, no date, c. 1930 Slava was the son of Matilda’s brother, the actor  Joseph Kschessinsky  (1868-1942), and of his first wife the famous ballerina  Serafima Alexandrovna Astafieva  (1876-1934), known as ‘Sima’. Sima left Russia and set up her ballet school at 152 Kings Road, Chelsea, in 1916. Slava married Margot Luck (d.1976), one of his mother’s pupils. Other pupils included Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin and Margot Fonteyn. ‘Aunt Mala’ married the Grand Duke in 1921 and, from 1929, taught at her own school in Paris till she was 92. See Matilda’s memoirs, ‘Dancing in Petersburg’, translated by Arnold Haskell, 1960.

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