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Lydia Lopokova ( October 21, 1892- June 8, 1981) was a famous Russian ballerina dancer during the early 20th-century and was the wife of the economist, John Maynard Keynes.She was born in St. Petersburg and trained at the Imperial Ballet School. She left Russia in 1910, joining the Diaghilev ballet (the Ballets Russes) for the first time. She stayed with the ballet only briefly, however, leaving for the United States after the summer tour, where she remained for six years. She rejoined Diaghilev in 1916, dancing with the Ballets Russes, and her former partner Vaslav Nijinsky, in New York and later in London. She first came to the attention of Londoners in 'The Good-humoured Ladies' in 1918, and followed this with a raucous performance with Leonide Massine in the Can-Can of La Boutique fantasque .
When her marriage to the company's business manager, Randolfo Barrochi , broke down in 1919, the dancer abruptly disappeared, but she decided to rejoin the Diaghilev for the second time in 1921, when she danced the Lilac Fairy and Princess Aurora in 'The Sleeping Princess'. During these years she became a friend of Stravinsky, and of Picasso, who drew her many times.
In London she came to know her future husband John Maynard Keynes. They married in 1925, once her divorce to Barrochi had been obtained. Although Keynes was quite involved in the Bloomsbury setThe Bloomsbury group or Bloomsbury Set or just "Bloomsbury" as its adherents ("members" is probably too formal a designation) would generally refer to it, was an English group of artists and scholars that existed from around 1905 until around World War II, most other bloomsberriesThe Bloomsbury group or Bloomsbury Set or just "Bloomsbury" as its adherents ("members" is probably too formal a designation) would generally refer to it, was an English group of artists and scholars that existed from around 1905 until around World War II, like Virginia WoolfVirginia Woolf ( January 25, 1882 March 28, 1941) was a British author and feminist. Between the world wars, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Life and Work Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in Lon and Lytton StracheyGiles Lytton Strachey ( March 1 1880 January 21 1932) was a British writer, best known as a biographer. Life Strachey was born in London, the son of Sir Richard Strachey, an engineer. From 1899 to 1905, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, having pre, never really accepted Lydia as one of their group.
Besides being involved in the early days of English ballet, Lydia Keynes appeared on the stage in London and CambridgeThis article is about Cambridge, England; see also other places called Cambridge. The city of Cambridge is an old English University town and the regional centre of the county of Cambridgeshire. It lies approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of London and i from 1928, and broadcast on the BBC. She lived with Keynes in London, Cambridge and Sussex until his death in 1946, and continued to live in the same places thereafter, although she largely disappeared from public view. Lydia Lopokova Keynes died in 1981, aged eighty-eight.
Lopokova, Lydia
Lopokova, Lydia
