Image: Talisman -Vayou -Vaslav Nijinsky -1909

Description: Cropped photographic postcard of the danseur Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950) costumed as the God Vayou in the dancer/choreographer/teacher Nikolai Legat's (1869-1937) revival of the choreographer Marius Petipa (1818-1910) and the composer Riccardo Drigo's (1846-1930) ballet Le Talisman.
Title: Talisman -Vayou -Vaslav Nijinsky -1909
Credit: "The Great Russian Dancers" by Gennady Smakov. Knopf, 1984.
Author: Unknown photographer of the photography department of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. St. Petersburg, Russian Empire.
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