Mathilde Kschessinska 1903

Mathilde Kschessinskaya was the first Russian prima ballerina assoluta in the world. Today, she is probably best known for her love affair with the future Emperor Nicholas II. After the Russian Revolution, Kschessinska moved first to French Riviera before she moved to Paris, where she married, in 1921, one of the tsar's cousins, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia, with whom she had had a son, Prince Vladmir Romanovsky-Krasinsky ("Vova"). She died two months before her 100th birthday.