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296: 364: 38: 610:, which recounts Lydia's love affair with Keynes, her prickly reception from his friends in the Bloomsbury group, and their marriage, as well as narrating the story of Lydia's earlier life, from her childhood in the Imperial Ballet School through to her tours in America and beyond as a solo artist and celebrity. 381:. He "sat every night in the stalls, enchanted by Lydia as the Lilac Fairy casting spells over the cradle." The two soon became lovers, and they were married in 1925, once her divorce from Barrocchi had been obtained. Until now, Keynes's closest relationships had been with the members of the 286:
knocked a year off her age and promoted her as a child star." She stayed with the Ballets Russes only briefly, knowing that she had little future in Russia ("she was the wrong size and shape for the grand roles and there were already plenty of prima ballerinas in St. Petersburg").
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She accepted an American offer of 18,000 francs per month, sixty times more than she had earned in Russia, and after the summer tour left for the United States, where she remained for five years, enjoying tremendous success and legally changing her name to Lopokova in April 1914.
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coterie. When the Ballets Russes came to the United States in 1916 she broke off her engagement, and soon after married the company's Italian business manager, Randolfo Barrocchi. She danced regularly with the company, including with her former partner,
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in 1937, Lopokova devoted herself increasingly to taking care of his health. She supervised his diet and made sure he had enough rest; "without her constant attention and her
405:, for example, wrote: "How we all used to underestimate her.") However, she maintained friendships with many other members of London's cultural elite of the time, including 515: 351:. When her marriage to Barrocchi broke down in 1919, the dancer abruptly disappeared for a time, as she had done before in America. She also had an on-off affair with 1156: 432:. Lydia remarked to Wittgenstein "What a beautiful tree", Wittgenstein responded glaringly asking "what do you mean?" which caused Lydia to burst into tears. 1412: 1357: 1367: 1372: 883: 1180: 899:"Niall Ferguson is wrong: writing on Lopokova, Keynes' wife, I found evidence of a warm and loving relationship in which both wanted children" 1407: 996: 839: 1417: 741: 260:, where she almost immediately became a star pupil. As a child she danced before the Emperor and his family, in productions such as the 1352: 1149: 1117: 720: 377:
in which Lopokova danced the Lilac Fairy and Princess Aurora. The production was a flop, but it brought her to the attention of
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published a reminiscence of several visits to her there. Lopokova died in the Three Ways Nursing Home in
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After Keynes's death in 1946, she largely disappeared from public view and lived in Tilton House,
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at first hand. As she grew older "she responded instinctively to the expressive choreography of
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Bloomsbury ballerina : Lydia Lopokova, imperial dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes
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in 1925. A fortnight into the honeymoon they were briefly visited by the philosopher
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She toured with the Ballets Russes in America, Europe, South America and later in
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Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes
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in 1910, and rejoined them in 1916 after an interlude in the United States.
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Lydia and Maynard: Letters between Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes
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in 1933. Also in 1933 she danced her last ballet role, as Swanhilda in
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Lopokova is the central character in 'Firebird', the novel by
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in 1918, and followed this with a raucous performance with
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as a presenter and in a number of acting roles; she read "
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In 1915, while in New York, she had become engaged to the
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
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Index

The Right Honourable

Saint Petersburg
Russian Empire
Seaford, East Sussex
Ballerina
John Maynard Keynes
Fyodor Lopukhov
Russian
ballerina
Imperial Ballet School
Ballets Russes
John Maynard Keynes
Sussex
Saint Petersburg
Alexandrinsky Theatre
Fyodor Lopukhov
Mariinsky Theatre
Imperial Ballet School
The Nutcracker
Bloody Sunday
Mikhail Fokine
Ballets Russes
Diaghilev

New York Morning Telegraph
Heywood Broun
Algonquin Round Table
Vaslav Nijinsky
London

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