She also made lifelong friendships and artistic contacts that served her well in establishing her own company later on, when several dancers, including Karsavina, appeared with her group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marie Rambert.] Reference

Lialia called her Sina, her surname being Karsavina.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanine] Reference

Karsavina rose up before him, soothing his heated senses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanine] Reference

Karsavina and the school-mistress Dubova were sitting on a bench.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanine] Reference

Karsavina appeared in a new Ballet at the Marinsky, all dance-loving Russia coming to see her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 1. Background] Reference

Karsavina, startled, leaped into the clear water from which alone her rosy face and shining eyes emerged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanine] Reference

When You're in Love -- Karsavina, another of the prima donnas, fends off choreographer Fokine's amorous advances.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamendo] Reference

I shall always remember Karsavina, the most beautiful dancer in the world, in those meagre days, dancing to a packed house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship] Reference

Society's view of such affairs and is near broken by it; Sanine sustains Karsavina and brings her to the idea, cherished by Thomas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanine] Reference

I think Karsavina must have wondered what it would be like to dance before that tired, undernourished crowd instead of her once glittering and exclusive little band of nobles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Red Months in Russia: An Observer's Account of Russia Before and During the Proletarian Dictatorship] Reference

Other dance luminaries included in the cast are prima ballerinas Karsavina and Thessinska, as well as the ballet apprentice, Romola, whose designs on Nijinski cause discord in the company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamendo] Reference

He treats his mother's shocked amazement with brutal scorn; he ridicules Lyda's shame at being enceinte; he seduces Karsavina, at the very time when she is in love with Jurii, and reasons with cold patience against her subsequent remorse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Russian Novelists] Reference

The four women in the story, Sanin's sister Lyda, the pretty school-teacher Karsavina, Jurii's sister, engaged to a young scientist, who during the engagement cordially invites her brother to accompany him to a house of ill-fame, and the mother of Sanin, are all thoroughly conventional, and are meant to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays on Russian Novelists] Reference

They start preparing professionally as children; their lives are ruthlessly and narrowly concentrated on their work; they have a mother to nurture them, fight for them; they inspire a powerful creative personality, who then shapes them (Pavlova had Petipa; Karsavina had Fokine; a dozen or more, from Danilova and Toumanova to Farrell and McBride, had Balanchine); and they find themselves in their forties either finished or hanging on precariously — ballerinas don't age gracefully into character roles and grandmother roles, the way talented actresses can.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Pleasing] Reference

Karsavina and Dubova were teachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanine] Reference

"Very well; and Ludmilla Nicolaievna will invite Karsavina and Olga.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanine] Reference

Karsavina?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sanine] Reference