Anna Pavlova
By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide
Two Swans
Anna Pavlova in 1927 at her London home
Getty Images / Hulton Archive
Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, famous for her role as a swan in The Dying Swan, is here shown at her London home, Ivy Lodge in Hampstead, in 1927, the year before she made her last world tour.
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