The Sleeping Beauty (Photo gallery)

 

Maria Anderson as the Fairy Fleur de farine and Lyubov Rabtsova as her page (1890)
Maria Anderson as the Fairy Fleur de farine and Lyubov Rabtsova as her page (1890)
Claudia Kulichevskaya as the Breacrumb Fairy and Iosif Kschessinsky as her page (1890)
Claudia Kulichevskaya as the Breacrumb Fairy and Iosif Kschessinsky as her page (1890)
Anna Johannson as the Fairy Candide qui chante with Olga Kiel and Anna Urakova as her pages (1890)
Anna Johansson as the Fairy Canari qui chante with Olga Kiel and Anna Urakova as her pages (1890)
Marie Petipa as the Lilac Fairy and students of the Imperial Ballet School as her pages (1890)
Marie Petipa as the Lilac Fairy and students of the Imperial Ballet School as her pages (1890)
Matilda Kschessinskaya as the Marquise (1890)
Matilda Kschessinskaya as the Marquise (1890)
Marie Petipa as the Lilac Fairy (1890)
Marie Petipa as the Lilac Fairy (1890)
Aurora's Bedchamber (1890)
Act 2, Aurora’s Bedchamber (1890)

 

Matilda Kschessinskaya as Little Red Riding Hood and Alexander Gorsky as the Wolf (1890)
Matilda Kschessinskaya as Little Red Riding Hood and Alexander Gorsky as the Wolf (1890)
Sofia Zasedateleva and Pyotr Konstantinov as Beauty and the Beast (1890)
Sofia Zasedateleva and Pyotr Konstantinov as Beauty and the Beast (1890)
Tatiana Kasatkina as Donkeyskin and Anton Panteleyev as Prince Charmant (1890)
Tatiana Kasatkina as Donkeyskin and Anton Panteleyev as Prince Charmant (1890)
Konstantin Tatarinov as Bluebeard and Anna Antonova as his wife (1890)
Konstantin Tatarinov as Bluebeard and Anna Antonova as his wife (1890)

 

Photos and images: © Dansmuseet, Stockholm © Большой театр России © Victoria and Albert Museum, London © Государственный академический Мариинский театр © CNCS/Pascal François © Bibliothèque nationale de France © Musée l’Opéra © Colette Masson/Roger-Viollet © АРБ имени А. Я. Вагановой © Михаил Логвинов © Михайловский театр, фотограф Стас Левшин. Партнёры проекта: СПбГБУК «Санкт-Петербургская государственная Театральная библиотека». ФГБОУВО «Академия русского балета имени А. Я. Вагановой» СПбГБУК «Михайловский театр». Михаил Логвинов, фотограф. Martine Kahane.