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[[File:Tamara Toumanova & Serge Lifar.jpg|thumb|Toumanova and [[Serge Lifar]] performing [[Swan Lake]].]]
[[File:Tamara Toumanova & Serge Lifar.jpg|thumb|Toumanova and [[Serge Lifar]] performing [[Swan Lake]].]]


'''Tamara Toumanova''' (2 March 1919–29 May 1996) was a [[ballerina]] and actress of Polish and [[Armenia]]n descent.<ref>Прекрасная Маруся Сава: русская эмиграция на концертных площадках и в ресторанах Америки, Михаил Иванович Близнюк - 2007 [http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&hl=ru&q=tamara+toumanova+armenian&btnG=%D0%98%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8#sclient=psy&hl=ru&tbo=1&tbm=bks&source=hp&q=%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0+%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0+%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=fb0755c8a51e3264&biw=1122&bih=357]</ref><ref>Александр Васильев Волшебное зеркало воспоминаний: ЛЮДМИЛА ИЛЬИНИЧНА ЛОПАТО - 2003 - 232 c.</ref>
Tamara Toumanova (real name. Tumanishvili) ( March 2 1919 , Tyumen - May 29 1996 , Santa Monica , USA ) - dancer and actress of Georgian origin, spent most of her life in France..<ref>Прекрасная Маруся Сава: русская эмиграция на концертных площадках и в ресторанах Америки, Михаил Иванович Близнюк - 2007 [http://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&hl=ru&q=tamara+toumanova+armenian&btnG=%D0%98%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%BA%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B8#sclient=psy&hl=ru&tbo=1&tbm=bks&source=hp&q=%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0+%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0+%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BC%D1%8F%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=fb0755c8a51e3264&biw=1122&bih=357]</ref><ref>Александр Васильев Волшебное зеркало воспоминаний: ЛЮДМИЛА ИЛЬИНИЧНА ЛОПАТО - 2003 - 232 c.</ref>
Tamara Toumanova was born on a train when her mother, Eugenia Tumanishvili traveled to Siberia. Tamara was 18 months old when her parents met again after the revolution, which parted them. Family left Russia to settle for a year in Shanghai and later in Cairo . After much wandering around the refugee camps, they moved to Paris . There Tamara started attending piano lessons. From 1926 she studied ballet at the school of the famous Olga Preobrazhenskaya .
She was born '''Tamara Khasidovich''' to Polish and Armenian parents in [[Shanghai]], [[China]], while her mother was fleeing Georgia in search of her husband. They had become separated the previous year during the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|Russian Revolution]]. Tamara was 18 months old before her parents were reunited.

The family escaped from [[Russia]] to Shanghai, [[China]], where they lived for a year, then moved to [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]. After spending time in refugee camps, the family settled in Paris, [[France]], where there was a large Russian [[émigré]] community. Tamara was given piano lessons and studied ballet with [[Olga Preobrajenska]].


"Preobrajenska was my first and only permanent teacher," Toumanova said. "I think always of Madame Preobrajenska not only as my beloved, never-to-be-forgotten teacher, but my immortal friend."{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}}
"Preobrajenska was my first and only permanent teacher," Toumanova said. "I think always of Madame Preobrajenska not only as my beloved, never-to-be-forgotten teacher, but my immortal friend."{{Citation needed|date=February 2008}}


Toumanova made her debut at the [[Opéra National de Paris|Paris Opera]] at the age of ten in the children's ballet ''[[L'Éventail de Jeanne]]'' (for which ten French composers wrote the music). [[George Balanchine]] saw her in ballet class and engaged her for [[Wassily de Basil|de Basil]]'s [[Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo]] as one of the three "baby ballerinas." She came to be called "The Black Pearl of the Russian Ballet."

Balanchine made the role of the Young Girl on Toumanova in his ballet ''[[Cotillon (ballet)|Cotillon]]'' and had her star in his ''[[Concurrence (ballet)|Concurrence]]'' and ''[[Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (ballet)|Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme]]''.


[[Léonide Massine]] also worked closely with Toumanova in the creation of many of his ballets. She played the part of the Top in his ''[[Jeux d'Enfants (ballet)|Jeux d'Enfants]]''. Balanchine created a role for her in his ''Le Palais de Cristal'' (since re-titled ''[[Symphony in C (ballet)|Symphony in C]]'') in 1947 at the Paris Opera.


In 1936, while Toumanova was performing ballet in Chicago, a 16 year old boy by the name of [[Burr Tillstrom]] came to see her perform. Following the ballet, Burr came backstage and actually introduced himself to her. As they talked Toumanova and Tillstrom became friends. Some time later, Tillstrom showed her a favorite puppet he had made and she, surprised by his revelation, exclaimed, "Kukla," and Burr Tillstrom went on to create a very early (1947) television show for children, titled, ''[[Kukla, Fran and Ollie]]''.
In 1936, while Toumanova was performing ballet in Chicago, a 16 year old boy by the name of [[Burr Tillstrom]] came to see her perform. Following the ballet, Burr came backstage and actually introduced himself to her. As they talked Toumanova and Tillstrom became friends. Some time later, Tillstrom showed her a favorite puppet he had made and she, surprised by his revelation, exclaimed, "Kukla," and Burr Tillstrom went on to create a very early (1947) television show for children, titled, ''[[Kukla, Fran and Ollie]]''.

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Toumanova and Serge Lifar performing Swan Lake.

Tamara Toumanova (real name. Tumanishvili) ( March 2 1919 , Tyumen - May 29 1996 , Santa Monica , USA ) - dancer and actress of Georgian origin, spent most of her life in France..[1][2]

Tamara Toumanova was born on a train when her mother, Eugenia Tumanishvili traveled to Siberia. Tamara was 18 months old when her parents met again after the revolution, which parted them. Family left Russia to settle for a year in Shanghai and later in Cairo . After much wandering around the refugee camps, they moved to Paris . There Tamara started attending piano lessons. From 1926 she studied ballet at the school of the famous Olga Preobrazhenskaya .

"Preobrajenska was my first and only permanent teacher," Toumanova said. "I think always of Madame Preobrajenska not only as my beloved, never-to-be-forgotten teacher, but my immortal friend."[citation needed]


In 1936, while Toumanova was performing ballet in Chicago, a 16 year old boy by the name of Burr Tillstrom came to see her perform. Following the ballet, Burr came backstage and actually introduced himself to her. As they talked Toumanova and Tillstrom became friends. Some time later, Tillstrom showed her a favorite puppet he had made and she, surprised by his revelation, exclaimed, "Kukla," and Burr Tillstrom went on to create a very early (1947) television show for children, titled, Kukla, Fran and Ollie.

In the United States, Toumanova appeared in the movies The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Tonight We Sing (playing Anna Pavlova), Deep in My Heart, Days of Glory, and Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain. In 1944, she married film producer and screen writer, Casey Robinson; the marriage ended in divorce.

Tamara's grandmother Princess Chkheidze, is aunt to renowned pianist Margarita Chkheidze.

She died in Santa Monica, California, on 29 May 1996, at the age of 77.

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  1. ^ Прекрасная Маруся Сава: русская эмиграция на концертных площадках и в ресторанах Америки, Михаил Иванович Близнюк - 2007 [1]
  2. ^ Александр Васильев Волшебное зеркало воспоминаний: ЛЮДМИЛА ИЛЬИНИЧНА ЛОПАТО - 2003 - 232 c.

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