ANNA PAVLOVA
references to literature and internet sources




A selection of literature on Anna Pavlova


Algeranoff, Harcourt. My years with Pavlova. London: Heinemann, 1957. New York: British Book Service, 1957

Amphlett, E.P.C. Memorial to Pavlova. London 1945

Anonymous. Anna Pavlova. Het aangrijpend levensverhaal van de grootste danseres aller tijden bewerkt naar authentieke gegevens. Haarlem s.a.
a fictionalized biography

Beaumont, Cyril W. Anna Pavlova. London: C.W. Beaumont, 1932
3rd edition 1945

Bell, Jasmin Cannon (ed). Anna Pavlova. A photographic essay. London: Museum of London, 1981

Bie, Oscar, Paul Barchan, Max Osborn & Anna Pawlowa [Pavlova]. Anna Pawlowa. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, 1913

Cull, A. Tulloch. Poems to Pavlova. London: Jenkins, 1913

Dandré, Victor. Anna Pavlova in art and life. London: Cassell & Co, 1932
reissued by Blom, New York, 1970; reprinted by Arno Press, New York, 1979

Fonteyn, Margot. Pavlova. Impressions. London 1984

Franks, A.H. (ed). Pavlova: a biography. London: Burke, 1956
reprinted by Da Capo Press, New York, 1979; published in Russian by Isdatelstvo Inostrannoy Literatury, Moscow, 1956

Hyden, Walford. Pavlova: the genius of dance. London: Constable & Co, 1931

Kerensky, Oleg. Anna Pavlova. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1973. New York: Dutton, 1973

Krasovskaya, Vera Michailovna. Anna Pavlova. Leningrad/Moscow: Isskusstvo, 1965

Krasovskaya, Vera Michailovna. Anna Pavlova. In: eadem, Pavlova, Nizhinskij, Vaganova. Tri baljetnije povesti (Moskva: Agraf, 1999) 5-106
1964 text on Pavlova, dealing almost exclusively with her St Petersburg career; no illustrations, references or bibliography

Krauss, Ernst. Anna Pavlova: haar leven en haar kunst. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff, 1931
an English translation is offered on this website, here

Lazzarini, John & Roberta Lazzarini. Pavlova. Repertoire of a legend. New York 1980

Levinson, André. Anna Pavlova. Paris: Grjébine & Vishgnak, 1928

Lewalter, Ernst. Unsterbliche Anna Pawlowa! Das Märchen ihres Lebens und ihrer Kunst. Dresden: Carl Reissner, 1938

Magriel, Paul (ed). Pavlova; an illustrated monograph. New York 1947
reprinted in 1977 by Da Capo Press, New York, together with Magriel's volumes on Vaslav Nijinsky and Isadora Duncan, as Nijinsky, Pavlova, Duncan. Three lives in dance. Reprinted since

Malvern, Gladys. Dancing star: the story of Anna Pavlova. New York: Julian Messner, 1942. London/Glasgow: Collins, 1962

May, Helen. The Swan. The story of Anna Pavlova. Edinburgh/New York: Nelson, 1958

Money, Keith. Anna Pavlova. Her life and art. New York 1982

Olivéroff, André. Flight of the swan: a memory of Anna Pavlova. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1932
reprinted by Da Capo Press, New York, 1979

Oukrainsky, Serge. My two years with Pavlova. Los Angeles: Suttonhouse, 1940

Pavlova, Anna, 'Autobiografia di una ballerina.' Comoedia, January 1923, pp. 20-23; February 1923, pp. 17-18

Pawlowa [Pavlova], Anna. Tanzende Füsse. Der Weg meines Lebens. Dresden: Carl Reissner, 1928

Schmidt-Aleman, Heinz P. Anna Pawlowa, die Ballerina des Zaren. Berlin: Deutsche Buchbetrieb und Verlag, 1952
a fictionalized biography; there is a Dutch translation: Anna Pawlowa. Ballerina van de Tsaar, Amsterdam/Antwerpen: G.W. Breughel/Mertens & Stappaerts 1955

Stier, Theodore. With Pavlova round the world. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1929

Svetloff, Valerian (= Valerian Yakovlevitch Ivchenko). Anna Pavlova. Paris: Brunoff, 1922

Svetlov, Valerian (= Valerian Yakovlevitch Ivchenko). Anna Pavlova. London: British-Continental Press, 1931

Thomassen, Jean. Anna Pavlova 1881-1931. Triomf en tragedie van een mega-ster. Amsterdam: Van Soeren 1995

Tänze von Anna Pawlowa im Bilde, Dresden: Carl Reissner, 1931
re-edition of the plates only from Anna Pawlowa. Tanzende Füsse. Der Weg meines Lebens. Dresden: Carl Reissner, 1928



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The history of the Kirov-Maryinsky by the famous historian of the ballet Clement Crisp, with biographies of Pavlova and others connected to the St. Petersburg ballet.


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