Bolshoi ballet posters & prints

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake at Bolshoi Theatre Anonymous

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake at Bolshoi Theatre Anonymous

The playbill for the first performance of the Ballet Swan Lake at the Bolshoi Theatre, 1877 Anonymous

Auditorium of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia Mihaly Zichy

Anna Sobeshchanskaya as Odette in the Ballet Swan Lake, Moscow, 1877 Anonymous

Polina Karpakova - the first Odette-Odile Anonymous

Olga Preobrajenskaya as Odette with Swans in the Ballet Swan Lake Anonymous

Pierina Legnani as Odette in the Ballet Swan Lake Anonymous

Scene from the Ballet Swan Lake, Mariinsky Theatre. 1895 Anonymous

Pavel Gerdt as Prince Siegfried in the Ballet Swan Lake, St. Petersburg, 1895 Anonymous

Scene from the Ballet Swan Lake, Mariinsky Theatre. 1895 Anonymous

Portrait of the ballerina Tamara Karsavina Jacques Emile Blanche

Theatre programme of the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre, 1912. Boris Zvorykin

Portrait of the composer Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, 1840s Anonymous

Barrage balloon at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, USSR, 1942 Unknown

Costume design for the opera Snow Maiden by N. Rimsky-Korsakov, 1919 Boris Dmitryevich Grigoriev

Medea. Costume design for the ballet The golden Fleece, 1915 Nadezhda Vladimirovna Lermontova

Rudolf Nureyev and Merle Park in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake at the Metropolitan Opera House New York Anthony Crickmay

Portrait of the ballerina Varvara Volkova, 1836 Anonymous

Rudolf Nureyev and Lucette Aldous in LÚon Minkus's Don Quixote at the Adelaide Theatre Anthony Crickmay

Odalisque. Costume design for the ballet Sheherazade by N. Rimsky-Korsakov Léon Bakst

Matilda Kschessinska as Princess Aspicia in the ballet The Pharaohs Daughter Anonymous

Tamara Karsavina, Russian ballerina, 1911 Unknown

Costume design for the ballet Sheherazade by N. Rimsky-Korsakov, 1910 Léon Bakst

Ivan Tsarevich. Costume design for the ballet The Firebird (Loiseau de feu) by I. Stravinsky, 1910 Léon Bakst

Matilda Kschessinska as Princess Aspicia in the ballet The Pharaohs Daughter Anonymous

Ida Rubinstein and Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet Scheharazade George Barbier

Ballet Scheherazade by N. Rimsky-Korsakov Anonymous

Natalia Bessmertnova and Alexander Godunov in the Ballet Swan Lake, 1970s Anonymous

Odalisque. Costume design for the ballet Sheherazade by N. Rimsky-Korsakov, 1910 Léon Bakst

The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, printed by Lemercier, Paris, 1840s Louis Jules Arnout

Rudolf Nureyev and Anthony Dowell rehearsing The Tempest Anthony Crickmay

Maya Plisetskaya and Alexander Godunov in the Ballet The Death of the Rose by Gustav Mahler, 1974 Anonymous

Stage design for the ballet Daphnis et Chloé by M. Ravel (Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris), 1912 Anonymous

Alice Nikitina and Serge Lifar, Russian ballet dancers, 1924 Anonymous

Nijinsky and Karsavina in the ballet Le Spectre de la Rose, 1911 Léon Bakst