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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.
Die Tänzerin Lydia Lopokova, um 1912. Lydia Lopokova (ursprünglich russisch Лидия Васильевна Лопухова / Lidija Wassiljewna Lopuchowa; nach Heirat Baroness Keynes; * 21. Oktober 1892 in Sankt Petersburg; † 8. Juni 1981 in Tilton, Firle, East Sussex) war eine russische Balletttänzerin .
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.
30. Juni 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.
Overview. Lydia Lopokova. (1891—1981) ballet dancer. Quick Reference. ( b St Petersburg, 21 Oct. 1891; d Seaford, 8 Jun. 1981) Russian-British dancer, sister of Andrei and Fyodor Lopukhov. She studied at the Imperial Theatre School with Fokine, making her debut when still a child and graduating in 1909 into the Mariinsky Theatre.
Lydia Lopokova trained as a ballerina at the Imperial School of Ballet in St Petersburg. Her appearance with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in 1918 took London by storm. Maynard Keynes became captivated by her childlike gaiety and idiosyncratic English, and after the failure of Diaghilev’s company, arranged accommodation for her in Bloomsbury.
