Vaganova 1951 graduating class
http://www.russianimperialballetschool.org/vaganova-students-images.html

Mariinsky: Dance of the Little Swans (2012)
http://dancetabs.com/2012/10/mariinsky-ballet-swan-lake-san-francisco/

Ludmila Nikolajevna rehearsing students for “Dance of the Little Swans”
Anna Korotysheva’s personal archives

Ludmila Nikolajevna teaching class at Vaganova Academy
Anna Korotysheva’s personal archives

Irina Alexandrovna Kolpakova
http://melmoth.blog/post/144739261283/happy-birthday-irina-kolpakova

Entrance to Vaganova Academy; photo by Jack Devant
http://www.jackdevant.com/vaganova-academy-of-russian-ballet/

The famous Rossi Street where Vaganova Academy is located
http://tatumshoptaugh.blogspot.com/p/vaganova-ballet-academy-or-russian.html

Vaganova Academy plaque
http://www.jackdevant.com/vaganova-academy-of-russian-ballet/

Dance of the Little Swans (1956)
http://melnikova-ballet.ru/art/art307.php

Ludmilla Komissarova in The Red Poppy (1958)
http://www.russianimperialballetschool.org/vaganova-students-images.html

“The Red Poppy” on a Soviet postage stamp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Poppy

Scene from The Red Poppy (1927)
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Glier_RedPoppy01.jpg

Scene from Bolshoi Theatre staging of “The Red Poppy” (1927)
http://www.diclib.com/%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%82/show/ru/bse/5990#.WviitdMvyb9

Galina Ulanova as Tao-Choa (c.1949)
http://www.etoretro.ru/pic56499.htm

Galina Ulanova and Sergei Koren in The Red Poppy (1950)
http://www.mamm-mdf.ru/en/exhibitions/george-petrusov-bolshoi-ballet/

Ludmila Komissarova in Spartacus (c. 1956)
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/428967933228224113/

Aram Khachaturian
https://www.rferl.org/a/25005784.html

Māris Liepa in Spartacus
http://www.liepa.ru/en/about-us/maris-liepa/
https://www.1tv.ru/doc/stati/maris-liepa-nevynosimaya-legkost-bytiya-dokumentalnyy-film-anons
http://www.classicalmusicnews.ru/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/liepa.jpg

Spartacus production at Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre of Russia (c. 2011)
https://novat.nsk.ru/upload/iblock/7ec/20151113_190846_5d3_03_69_0525.jpg

Spartacus ballet at Cairo Opera House (2016)
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentMulti/245348/Multimedia.aspx.

Final scene from Spartacus at Bolshoi Theater (1968)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/RIAN_archive_635065_Final_scene_from_Aram_Khachaturyan%27s_ballet_Spartacus.jpg

The Stone Flower rehearsal (1956)
http://melnikova-ballet.ru/art/art102.php

The Stone Flower rehearsal (c. 1956)
http://melnikova-ballet.ru/art/art103.php

Russian writer Pavel Petrovich Bhazov
https://galchi.livejournal.com/1858549.html

Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev in New York (c. 1918)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Prokofiev

Bolshoi ballet dancer Vladimir Preobrazhensky in The Stone Flower (1954)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_the_Stone_Flower_(Prokofiev)

Galina Mezentseva as Queen of the Copper Mountain in The Stone Flower (c. 1981)
https://ballet.blogberth.com/2018/03/04/galina-mezentseva-in-the-stone-flower-mariins/

1957 production of The Stone Flower staged by Yuri Grigorovich
http://melmoth.blog/post/154136393953/photos-and-artwork-from-the-1957-production

Modern staging of The Stone Flower at Mariinsky Theatre (c. 2017)
http://www.visit-petersburg.ru/media/uploads/event/2036/2036_cover.jpg

Vladimir Vasiliev & Nina Timofeyeva in Bolshoi Ballet’s The Stone Flower (c. 1959)
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/85/95/24/8595243db86a021ff5b6845978b74e95.jpg

Modern staging of Mariinsky Theatre’s The Stone Flower with Anastasia Matvienko & Maxim Zyuzin (c. 2016)
https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbill/2016/12/7/1_1900

Boys in 6th year class of Vaganova Ballet Academy (2009)
https://contact.photoshelter.com/image/I0000.Ra7A0Sg_34

Girls in 8th year class of Vaganova Ballet Academy (2009)
https://contact.photoshelter.com/image/I0000xl0lXKkECeA