Felia Doubrovska papers ca. 1919-1981

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Felia Doubrovska papers ca. 1919-1981

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/19731

The papers of Felia Doubrovska cover the period from c.1919 to the year of her death, 1981, and pertain to both her family and personal life and her professional career. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence: approximately 43 letters and notes from Doubrovska, and 266 letters, cards, notes, telegrams to Doubrovska, with a small part of the correspondence to her mother (Valentina Dlouzhnevska) and to Vladimiroff. Of interest are 42 letters or notes from Mathilde Kshessinska and her husband the Grand Duke André, and 12 letters from Iurii (Yuri) Bakhrushin.

2 document boxes (379 items in 51 folders

The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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