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Tatiana Barbakov

Dancer (1899-1944)

Born 1899 · AizputeDied 1944Russian EmpireGerman Reich
Tatiana Barbakov
Image: Else Ernestine Neuländer-Simon · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Tatiana Barbakov was a Russian ballet dancer and dancer, born in 1899 in Aizpute, who died in 1944.

Biography

Tatjana Barbakoff (15 August 1899 – 6 February 1944), born as Tsipora Edelberg, was a ballet and Chinese style dancer. She became a ballerina in Germany. After her death, Julia Tardi-Markus, in order to honor Barbakoff, initiated the "Tatjana Barbakoff Prize" in 1986 to help to encourage young dancers.

From the Wikipedia article “Tatjana Barbakoff”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Contemporaries

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