Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Ballet Image of the Day

Friday, November 6, 2009

Mikhailovsky Gran Prix Gala

Ballet Image of the Day

Moscow's Desire to Dig is Cracking the Surface

Russia Today reports that the front yard of the famous Russian Bolshoi Theater in central Moscow has suddenly collapsed into a two meter deep pit, after underground construction started nearby.




A Musical Heart


-Health Magazine, 1904

Dancing Weatherman

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Public Domain Russian Ballet Images

Google Books has been slowly digitizing the dusty tomes in university libraries. Books in the public domain are available to download in their entirety. Here are some public domain images from a 1913 book called The Russian Ballet by Dame Ellen Terry. (The embedding clipped a few of these images. Click on them to take you to the original if you'd like to crop them differently.)