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| Picture No | 10700954 |
| Date | 1914 |
| Description | Balachowa and Mordkin leaving for the front |
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The famous Russian dancers, Mme. Alexandra Balachowa, who is to be a Red Cross nurse, and M. Michael Mordkin, who is a reservist, leaving Charing Cross for the front. Mordkin is reported to have remarked light-heartedly to some friends that he had taught a number of Russians and Britons and other people to dance, and now he was going to have an opportunity of teaching the Germans to dance.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in The Sketch, 19th August 1914, page 187 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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