Tamara Platonovna Karsavina

Violet Keppel (later VT ) became acquainted, initially through her mother 's connections, with Diaghilev , Nijinsky , and Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina , as well as authors George Moore and Hugh Walpole .

Gellibrand (NH gives only her surname) was the daughter of a Russian mother and an English father who shipped timber for pit-props from the northern forests. Most of NH 's two months of...