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Lydia Lopokova, Baroness Keynes (born Lidiya Vasilyevna Lopukhova, Russian: Лидия Васильевна Лопухова; 21 October 1891 – 8 June 1981) was a Russian ballerina famous during the early 20th century. Lopokova trained at the Imperial Ballet School.
Jun 30, 1981 · Lydia Lopokova, a leading ballerina of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes and a popular figure on the English social and ballet scenes, died June 8 in England. She was 88 years old.
Lydia Lopokova was a Russian ballerina who joined the Ballets Russes and married the economist John Maynard Keynes. See 22 portraits of her by various artists, including her husband, at the National Portrait Gallery.
Lydia Lopokova was a prominent dancer in Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, who married the economist John Maynard Keynes in 1925. She also acted in plays, visited her family in Russia, and accompanied Keynes to international meetings during World War II.
This collection comprises materials related to the performances of Lydia Lopokova Keynes, pieces of her writing, correspondence, and other items that chronicle her life, including photographs, diaries, scrapbooks and reminiscences by others.
Jul 17, 2021 · Yet when John Maynard Keynes went, night after night, to watch Lydia Lopokova perform with the Ballets Russes in London in 1921, they fell ecstatically in love. It was, Keynes wrote, “a...
May 5, 2008 · Such is the tale of Lydia Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes. And such is the story told by Judith Mackrell in The Bloomsbury Ballerina. In 1983, a compendium of tributes to Lopokova and a...
