In a letter written on 11 May 1934 to his mother, Alice Essex, in London the dancer Harcourt Algeranoff wrote:

‘Nina Verchinina is engaged to an American. I believe a rich one’.

The letter was written from Barcelona where Algeranoff was performing with Colonel de Basil’s Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo.

Read the full letter at: http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/cdview?pi=nla.ms-ms2376-1-433

For earlier posts on Verchinina see the tag archive: http://michellepotter.org/tag/nina-verchinina

Michelle Potter, 12 September 2009