Ballet - only $210.43
Italian and French dancers and choreographers predominated in that period, but by 1800 Russian ballet was assimilating native elements from folk dancing as nobles sponsored dance companies of serfs.. Size: ? approx. was introduced in Russia together with other aristocratic dance forms as part of Peter the Great s Westernization program in the early 1700s. It is handturned from linden wood and then handpainted by a professional nesting doll artist. Petersburg in the 1740s. »