Great-great-granddaughter of Matilda Kshesinskaya, ballerina Eleonora Sevenard joined the troupe Bolshoi Theater, RIA Novosti reported. During her short career, the girl won prestigious awards, for example, she became the winner of the competition of the Ministry of Culture "Young Talents of Russia". The girl considers her famous great-great-grandmother an example of perseverance and hard work. What is known about Eleanor Sevenard - in the material "360".
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Eleanor Sevenard was born on September 22, 1997 in St. Petersburg. As a child, the girl decided to follow in the footsteps of her great-great-grandmother, the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya. In the house of the Sevenard family, the costumes of the famous relative were kept. Eleanor herself stated that Kshesinskaya's kinship did not become decisive in choosing her profession - she wanted to become a ballerina herself. At the same time, the girl considers her famous great-great-grandmother an example of perseverance and hard work.
Eleanor received her education at the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet. Also in student years she took part in performances Mariinsky Theater. The girl won the love of foreign viewers, touring in Lithuania and Japan.
Since 2015, Sevenard has performed the parts of Masha in The Nutcracker. She appeared on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater in this role ten times. This year, she took part in the Icons of Russian Ballet gala in London and flew to Paris for the Gala of Ballet Schools of the 21st Century.
During her short ballet career, Eleanor has received many awards. She has won the 2nd Prize of the Vaganova-PRIX Competition, the 1st Prize of the 3rd All-Russian Competition Russian Ballet and the Prize of the Natalia Dudinskaya and Konstantin Sergeev Foundation. In addition, the girl became a laureate of the competition of the Ministry of Culture "Young Talents of Russia".
In 2017, Eleonora graduated from the Academy of Russian Ballet and joined the Bolshoi Theater troupe. Its leader was People's Artist USSR Svetlana Adyrkhaeva. This November, the ballerina will take part in the Tatler debutante ball. Sevenard is called the favorite People's Artist Russia Nikolay Tsitskarzde. “She is the best graduate of the school this year,” he told Reedus.
"Dancing hard"
“I am glad that the ballet dynasty in our family continues with the younger generation,” Eleanor’s father, State Duma deputy of the third convocation, Konstantin Sevenard, told 360. The family supports the girl in choosing a profession and provides her with all kinds of support. It is a great honor for a ballerina to join the troupe of the Bolshoi Theatre, Sevenard stressed.
Eleonora Sevenard is very well educated, Tatyana Bessarabova, head of the ballet troupe of the Mariinsky Theater, told 360. "Dancing hard. Efficient and purposeful, which is important for our profession,” she said. Eleanor clearly knows what she wants, so her professional fate can turn out very favorably.
At the same time, there were critics of talent rising star Big. “She also lacks such elongated lines that are in demand today in ballet (which, apparently, was inherited, since great-great-grandmother did not have them either,”
Beginner's name ballerina Eleanor Sevenard
over the past two days, almost all Russian media have been covered. There were several reasons to get to know her better. First, Eleanor is a great-niece famous ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya, about whose life a film by Alexei Uchitel will soon be released. Secondly, the other day at the Bolshoi Theater she made her debut performance in the play Don Quixote. And thirdly,
On September 22, Eleanor celebrated her birthday - she turned 19 years old. We congratulate Eleonora - both on her birthday and on her debut, we wish her great creative success, and we invite you to learn a few interesting facts about her.
Matilda Kshesinskaya Eleanor, as already noted, is a great-niece. Her father, Konstantin Sevenard, is the son of Yuri Sevenard, who, in turn, is the son of Tselina Kshesinskaya, and she is the daughter of Matilda Kshesinskaya's brother.
Eleanor Sevenard
The family often talked about Matilda Feliksovna, we kept the Kshesinsky costumes. We have now donated them to the Academy Museum. I think this also played a role in my decision to choose the path of a dancer, - Eleanor said last year in an interview with Voci dell "Opera.
Matilda Kshesinskaya
Eleanor's parents have nothing to do with ballet. Father Konstantin Sevenard is in the construction business; was elected to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the State Duma of the 3rd convocation. Eleanor's mother is a historian.
Eleanor Sevenard's mother
Eleanor Sevenard's grandmother
Eleanor started ballet at the age of 4. But her mother brought her to the Academy of Russian Ballet named after A. Ya. Vaganova, which Eleanor graduated from this year. Eleanor was 10 at the time.
Eleonora at the graduation ceremony of the Academy in the Catherine Palace
Diana Vishneva and Eleanor Sevenard
While still a student of the Academy, she began to participate in the performances of the Mariinsky Theater (for example, she performed the role of Masha in the ballet The Nutcracker) and go on tour, in particular, to Lithuania and Japan.
Eleonora's favorite artists are Maya Plisetskaya, Ekaterina Maksimova and Vladimir Vasiliev.
At the Academy, Eleonora studied under the guidance of Tatyana Udalenkova. Also, her teacher was the rector of the Academy Nikolai Tsiskaridze.
Tatyana Udalenkova and Nikolai Tsiskaridze 
Eleanor has several honorary awards to her credit. Last year, she won second prize at the 7th Vaganova-PRIX International Ballet Competition ( senior group), the award of the Natalia Dudinskaya and Konstantin Sergeev Foundation and became one of the laureates of the All-Russian competition of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation "Young Talents of Russia". And in 2017, Eleonora was awarded the first prize of the 3rd All-Russian competition young performers "Russian ballet".
After graduating from the Academy, Eleanor was offered to join the troupe of the Mariinsky Theater, where she was familiar with a lot, or the troupe of the Bolshoi. But the heiress Kshesinskaya still chose the Moscow theater - now she is training under the guidance of Svetlana Adyrkhaeva. This became known last week.
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Eleanor Sevenard after her debut performance at the Bolshoi Theater, September 20
The name of the novice ballerina Eleonora Sevenard has been covered in almost all Russian media over the past two days. There were several reasons to get to know her better. Firstly, Eleanor is the great-niece of the famous ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya, about whose life the film by Alexei Uchitel "Matilda" will soon be released. Secondly, the other day at the Bolshoi Theater she made her debut performance in the play Don Quixote. And thirdly, today Eleanor celebrates her birthday - she turns 19 years old. We congratulate Eleonora - both on her birthday and on her debut, we wish her great creative success, and we invite you to find out some interesting facts about her.
Matilda Kshesinskaya Eleanor, as already noted, is a great-niece. Her father, Konstantin Sevenard, is the son of Yuri Sevenard, who, in turn, is the son of Tselina Kshesinskaya, and she is the daughter of Matilda Kshesinskaya's brother.
The family often talked about Matilda Feliksovna, we kept the Kshesinsky costumes. We have now donated them to the Academy Museum. I think this also played a role in my decision to choose the path of a dancer, - Eleanor said last year in an interview with Voci dell "Opera.
Eleanor Sevenard
Matilda Kshesinskaya
Eleanor's parents have nothing to do with ballet. Father Konstantin Sevenard is in the construction business; was elected to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the State Duma of the 3rd convocation. Eleanor's mother is a historian.
Eleanor Sevenard's mother
Eleanor Sevenard's grandmother
Eleanor started ballet at the age of 4. But her mother brought her to the Academy of Russian Ballet named after A. Ya. Vaganova, which Eleanor graduated from this year. Eleanor was 10 at the time.
Eleonora at the graduation ceremony of the Academy in the Catherine Palace
Diana Vishneva and Eleanor Sevenard
While still a student of the Academy, she began to participate in the performances of the Mariinsky Theater (for example, she performed the role of Masha in the ballet The Nutcracker) and go on tour, in particular, to Lithuania and Japan.
Eleonora's favorite artists are Maya Plisetskaya, Ekaterina Maksimova and Vladimir Vasiliev.
At the Academy, Eleonora studied under the guidance of Tatyana Udalenkova. Also, her teacher was the rector of the Academy Nikolai Tsiskaridze.
He is a very demanding teacher, there is no other way. I am glad that I have such an opportunity, because after rehearsals with him you come out with the acquired knowledge, goals and objectives that you must correct at the next rehearsal. And, most importantly, at rehearsals with Nikolai Maksimovich, you gain strength, a desire to work and improve, - Eleanor said in an interview.
Tatyana Udalenkova and Nikolai Tsiskaridze
Eleanor has several honorary awards to her credit. Last year, she won the second prize of the 7th Vaganova-PRIX International Ballet Competition (senior group), the prize of the Natalia Dudinskaya and Konstantin Sergeev Foundation and became one of the laureates of the All-Russian competition of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation "Young Talents of Russia". And in 2017, Eleonora was awarded the first prize of the 3rd All-Russian Competition for Young Performers "Russian Ballet".
After graduating from the Academy, Eleanor was offered to join the troupe of the Mariinsky Theater, where she was familiar with a lot, or the troupe of the Bolshoi. But the heiress Kshesinskaya still chose the Moscow theater - now she is training under the guidance of Svetlana Adyrkhaeva. This became known last week.
Eleanor Sevenard after her debut performance at the Bolshoi Theater, September 20
Childhood and family
Eleonora was born on August 22, 1998 in St. Petersburg. The girl's parents have nothing to do with ballet. Father Konstantin is engaged in the construction business, and was also elected to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the State Duma of the 3rd convocation. The ballerina's mother is a historian by profession. 
The girl's grandfather, Yuri Sevenard, a Soviet and Russian hydro-builder and State Duma deputy, is the son of Tselina Kshesinskaya, Matilda's niece. It is noteworthy that some members of the girl's family are sure that Tselina is actually the daughter of Nikolai and Kshesinskaya, who was taken in by the ballerina's brother, Joseph.
According to Eleanor, in her house for a long time costumes were kept great ballerina, which were eventually transferred to the museum of the Academy of Russian Ballet. However, some historians refute the relationship of Eleanor with Kshesinskaya and assure that the living descendants of Matilda are no more.
Ballet
Eleanor started ballet at the age of 4. At the age of 10, Sevenard entered the Academy of Russian Ballet named after Agrippina Yakovlevna Vaganova. IN academic years Eleonora has repeatedly toured abroad with other students of the Academy and has taken part in performances of the Mariinsky Theatre. In particular, in 2015-2017 she could be seen in the ballet The Nutcracker. 
The girls' teachers and mentors at the Academy were Nikolai Tsiskaridze, rector educational institution, and Tatyana Aleksandrovna Udalenkova, from under whose “wing” came such famous ballerinas as Irma Nioradze, Irina Perren and Renata Shakirova. Tsiskaridze immediately noticed in Sevenard huge talent and only then did he find out that the girl was a relative of Kshesinskaya. Nikolai Maksimovich believed that this fact would interfere with the girl in the future, because it forms people's prejudice.
Interview with Eleanor Sevenard
Later, the girl admitted that kinship with Matilda was not the main reason for choosing a profession. However, the significant role of Kshesinskaya in the world of ballet pulls her along - Sevenard wants to achieve similar successes in a career.
The young ballerina has already reached considerable heights in her field. She has several prestigious awards. Among them is the first prize of the 3rd All-Russian Competition for Young Performers "Russian Ballet".
In the spring of 2017, the girl took part in the Icons of Russian Ballet gala in London, the Gala of ballet schools of the 21st century at the Paris Opera Garnier and the charity Gala of ballet schools at the La Scala theater in Milan.
Eleanor Sevenard - Pavilion of Armida
After graduating from the Academy, the ballerina was offered a job at the Mariinsky Theater, but Eleanor preferred the Bolshoi Theater and classes under the mentorship of Svetlana Adyrkhaeva. Together with another talented student of Tsiskaridze, Yegor Gerashchenko, she joined the troupe of the great theater in the 242nd season.
Personal life of Eleanor Sevenard
Little is known about Eleanor's personal life. All free time the girl gives to work in the theater, so relations with young people fade into the background.Konstantin Sevenard: "I swear I'm telling the truth"
The other day, all the media wrote about the 19-year-old ballerina Eleanor Sevenard, accepted into the troupe of the Bolshoi Theater. The sensationalism of this news was given by the fact that the young dancer from St. Petersburg is the great-great-granddaughter of "the same Kshesinskaya."
Officially - according to the only surviving lateral branch of the Kshesinsky, from Matilda's brother Joseph. Since the ballerina had no direct descendants.
But representatives of the Kshesinsky-Sevenard family are convinced that not everything is so simple in this world and that their grandmother, nee Tselina Iosifovna Kshesinskaya, is in fact not a niece, but own daughter Matilda and... Nicholas II.
Everyone said that Tselina surpassed her famous relative in beauty.
Conceived much later than the marriage of the king - in 1910. And not just like that, but for the sake of saving the country.
A girl with pure blood, not carrying the broken genes of deadly hemophilia, which ultimately ruined the empire.
This story is so incredible and more like a thick adventure novel than a boring one. historical chronicle that if someone else had told me it, and not the father of that very young ballerina Eleanor Sevenard, I would never have believed it.
But Konstantin Sevenard is quite a real man who is responsible for his words.
Ex-deputy State Duma of the Russian Federation and the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, fought in Afghanistan, his father, communist Yuri Sevenard, ran for mayor of Leningrad in 1991 and lost to Sobchak, and his grandfather Konstantin Sevenard, the patriarch of the Soviet hydropower construction, as he was called, who handed over more than one powerful turnkey HPS, the grandson of Konstantin Yuryevich Sevenard is convinced that the scandal with Matilda is not at all accidental.
Konstantin Sevenard.
The series "Matilda" was released on new round. Having driven the three Grand Dukes crazy, Kshesinskaya has almost driven her crazy and modern Russia. Why are we doing this? And what, after all, was in this woman, in today's captious look of a not so brilliant beauty? Just a lover? Or something more?
We are sitting with Konstantin Sevenard in his office on the Black River, the view from the window is beautiful, the last warm days, sun glare stitches lie on the Malaya Nevka. Peter is still a story, take any house built about a century ago, and it will surely turn out that it is also associated with the name of Matilda Feliksovna: she visited here, she drank tea there ... The past is so close, almost nearby.
100 years of revolution - fleeting sunbeam on cold September water.
Konstantin Yuryevich, are you outraged that the name of your great-grandmother, your own or cousin, is being rinsed today, to be honest, by everyone who is not lazy? Do you also want to sue the authors of Matilda, as Olga Kulikovskaya-Romanova, the widow of Nicholas II's nephew, recently did?
How can I file a defamation claim if I haven't seen the film yet? Let him come out, and then it will become clear. But I think that all the really ambiguous and controversial episodes have probably already been cut from there. And if there is a spreading cranberry left, then it is unlikely that it can offend anyone.
- Is it not surprising that the name of Kshesinskaya suddenly emerged from oblivion on the very eve of the century of the revolution?
Of course, in Soviet times Kshesinskaya was remembered only in the context of her mansion, which was donated by the emperor and where the headquarters of the Bolsheviks was located in 1917, and then the Museum of the Revolution. The fact that the great-grandmother was not a timid ten is evidenced by the fact that she sued the uninvited guests who evicted her, she was not afraid. Imagine, she won a lawsuit against Lenin. Matilda returned to her mansion and even arranged a large hiding place there, brought all her jewelry and documents there, but, alas, she did not stay there for long, she soon fled abroad ... The times were turbulent. In the 90th year, including my family, did everything to open an exhibition in this building dedicated to the life of Matilda Kshesinskaya, but we could not even imagine that crowds of people would rush there, that many would find it interesting - archival photographs, documents , our survivors family photos... Instead of several months, the exhibition ran for about two years. A lot of publications at that time appeared in the media dedicated to the life of Matilda and her love.
Brother Joseph and sister Matilda. Does she hide her pregnancy under a wide skirt?
And yet, what you are telling today about the real fate of your great-grandmother is apocryphal at best. But the family legend that she had a daughter from Nicholas II is yours dear grandmother that she was born much later than the emperor’s marriage to Alexandra Feodorovna and even the birth of their common children is worse than Matilda, to be honest.
I swear I'm telling the truth. On October 6, 1910, at the invitation of Nikolai, Matilda met with him in the park of the Konstantinovsky Palace in a gazebo on the island. She was brought there by boat. On her part, the purpose of the visit was quite prosaic, she had a conflict with the director of the Mariinsky Theater, which she wanted to resolve in her favor, to win Nikolai over to her side, but he had other intentions ... There was an episode of intimacy. I don't think it was random. Nicholas really wanted a child from Matilda, a healthy child.
- First love forever?
The fact is that they never interrupted their relationship. Matilda's sister, Yulia, also a ballerina, the 1st Kshesinskaya, as everyone called her, married Colonel Alexander Zeddeler, the tsar's adjutant, so Matilda had direct access to Nicholas in any case. Yes, Nikolai was weak and driven, and Matilda was one of the most interesting and charming women of her era, it was not without reason that she drove two other grand dukes crazy, Sergei Mikhailovich and Andrei Vladimirovich, whose wife she eventually became.
According to my information, Matilda was pregnant from the end of 1910 to the spring of 1911, officially at that time she allegedly shone on tour in England, but in fact since March she had been living non-stop in the house of her brother Joseph and his wife Serafima in Astashkovo. To kill time, she practiced handwriting, wrote with her left hand, rewrote “Woe from Wit”, many years later this notebook seemed to be found by the pioneers and handed over to the Bakhrushinsky Museum.
Felix Kshesinsky - the head of the dynasty.
Her daughter Tselina, my grandmother, was born in the middle of summer. Brother Joseph offered to sign the girl on himself. His one-year-old son Slavochka was already growing up, whom his first wife, the dancer Sima Astafieva, gave birth to, so the newborn did not require any additional investments, and clothes, and a stroller, and even a nurse were already ready. Matilda returned to St. Petersburg, where she magnificently celebrated her next birthday in front of everyone, compensating for a long absence. In the meantime, the nurse did not have enough milk for two children - and Joseph ordered her to be the first to feed Tselina ... Seraphim's wife was offended and left, taking with her a one-year-old boy. Later they went to London - and there the traces of Slavik, unfortunately, were lost. And Joseph married the beautiful Tselina Spryshinskaya, it was necessary to urgently straighten the passport to his niece, and according to official biography it was Tselina Sr. who was considered the mother of little Tselina, named after her.
- But for such high-profile conclusions there are not enough words, evidence is needed.
Our family has photographs of that era. Here, for example, is a picture from Astashkov, you see how Matilda sits awkwardly sideways, covering big belly, here she is just pregnant with her grandmother. And here - she has already given birth, stands next to the stroller, looks at the baby with tenderness ... To hide family secret, Tselina Jr. was registered only in the fall and for brother Joseph.
In your opinion, Matilda's reputation could be hindered by another bastard? Why did she recognize Volodya, her only son according to the documents, and abandoned her own daughter?
Because Volodya was not the son of the king, but Tselina was. By the way, here is the interweaving of fate - in the photograph where Matilda is standing with a stroller, in the right corner is a five-year-old boy, the son of the Kshesinsky neighbors on the estate, Konstantin Sevenard. Many years later he would become my grandfather and Tselina's husband.
Matilda Kshesinskaya conquered men not with beauty, but with natural charm.
- Which original surname- Sevenard. Where is she from?
The ancestors of the Sevenards - immigrants from France, an old aristocratic family, were related to Napoleon, so that the second half of my surname did not let us down.
But how could it happen that in the USSR the nobleman Konstantin Sevenard, married to a relative of Matilda Kshesinskaya herself, a niece or daughter, not only was not repressed, but was even allowed to work at objects of national importance?
Grandfather Sevenard was an honored hydro-builder, an order bearer; the second, more secret part of his biography: wherever he built hydroelectric stations, military factories also arose at the same time. For example, they built the Volga hydroelectric power station - and the Volga Motors plant was laid nearby, which provided the needs of the army with transport, the same thing happened in the Urals during the construction of the Uralvagonzavod. His solutions for those times were the most advanced. No, there were no doubts about Konstantin Sevenard in power, although he never received the Hero of Socialist Labor, just like me, who fought in Afghanistan, took part in the rescue of the 9th company and was twice nominated for the title of Hero Soviet Union, - I think, all this is not accidental. By the way, the grandfather himself did not particularly spread about the past of the family, we knew only the very minimum about our ancestors. Relations were not supported in any way. In those days it could not be otherwise. When, in the early 60s, Matilda tried to come to the USSR, on a ship to Odessa, handing over a letter for my father Yuri, her grandson, by chance, Sevenard's grandfather did not let his son go anywhere. The letter was forced to burn and forget. However, this meeting would not have taken place anyway - since Kshesinskaya was not even allowed to descend to her native land.
Summer 1911. Matilda (center) looks at the carriage in which she lies, family legend, her newborn daughter.
- And what about your grandmother Tselina?
Grandma was no longer alive by that time. She died at 48. Which is not at all typical for the Kshesinsky family, who lived under a hundred years old: Matilda left at 99 (in 1971! - E.S.), her sister Yulia at 104, but Tselina instantly burned out from cancer , affected by the fact that she and her husband worked near Semipalatinsk when the first nuclear tests were taking place there. In general, my grandmother started as a ballerina at the Kirov Theatre, the former Mariinsky Theater, where her father Joseph continued to work as a dance master in the 30s. To be honest, I don’t know how it happened that the sisters Matilda and Yulia were able to emigrate, and he stayed in Russia with his adopted niece, then married a third time. But my great-grandfather did not live his life in vain. He brought up a whole galaxy of wonderful Soviet dancers, the famous ballerina Natalya Dudinskaya considered him his teacher, but Tselina’s grandmother herself did not have a career, although we keep her old posters at home ... Tselina married her grandfather, a hydro-builder, very early and how faithful wife I traveled all over the country with him, gave birth to two children, survived the war, had to forget about the theater ... Great-grandfather Joseph Kshesinsky disappeared in the blockade in 1942. That's all we know about him. There was then a search in his apartment, they opened the furniture, they seemed to find some strange glass plates, which were taken with them by those who conducted this search. Much time has passed since then, and there are too many events to count... The USSR collapsed, many archival documents became available... And now "Matilda" has resurrected again now in the form of a scandalous film. This means that her fate still worries our compatriots, and this is no accident.
Probably, if your relationship with the royal family is proved, then you can become the center of the opposing forces?
Yes, on the one hand, there are those who benefit from the appearance of official heirs Russian emperor, on the other hand, I understand that the majority will not want to recognize us as descendants of Nicholas II. My father - he is old, but cheerful - voluntarily donated blood for DNA testing last year, but the results of the study have not yet been received. And frankly, I don’t understand where they have gone, what is happening, who doesn’t want or who doesn’t benefit from pulling this old story into the world. Although it is not a fact that the remains officially recognized as royal, with which our DNA could be compared, are actually such ... The history of their canonization is dark and mysterious. I know that the same Yeltsin in the 90s was categorically against any restoration of tsarism.
Sobchak, whose opponent in the elections was my father. after the events of August 1991, there was an idea to recreate a liberal monarchy in Russia. He tried to involve Vladimir Kirillovich Romanov, the then official head of the dynasty, on this issue, as far as I know, they even agreed to something. But personally, I didn’t want to and didn’t see myself in this project: for me, great-grandmother Matilda is not a way to achieve some political goals, but a kind of symbol of freedom, spiritual and bodily, that turn of history that would not have happened if she stayed with Nicholas.
Little Tselina with Joseph and brother Romuald.
Matilda lived an incredibly long and such different life. If you look at it, then the affair with the heir - he was only the beginning of her journey, the first series of an endless series 99 years long. It is quite possible that even now, judging by latest developments around Matilda, we are not witnessing the end of this story.
The only pity is that there are practically no unknown authentic archives left. The memoirs and diaries of the great-grandmother have already been published. After unexpected death Matilda's son Vladimir Krasinsky, who survived his mother by only two years, Vladimir Kirillovich Romanov took the remaining papers. In a conversation with me, he did not hide the fact that he was interested in ensuring that these records did not surface anywhere. Well, communicating with aristocrats is very easy, at least they never lie. And to a direct question they give the same direct answer.
Your press conference was recently held at Interfax in St. Petersburg. Reviews about her were also mixed. Are you not afraid that you will be accused either of being crazy, or of lying or pursuing some of your interests? Too incredible story...
You know, I once heard a very curious phrase, I don’t remember who said it: if a lie is thrown out of history, this does not mean at all that the truth will remain in it ... But personally, I am ready to give my life to prove my case.
...was waiting for her long life, in which the affair with the heir was only one of the episodes. Matilda Feliksovna at 95.
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Matilda Kshesinskaya had an older brother Joseph and a sister Julia, who was called the 1st Kshesinskaya, married Zeddeler, she had no children.
Iosif Kshesinsky (1868–1942) - character dancer and choreographer at the Mariinsky and later the Kirov Theatre. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1927).
Was married three times.
In 1896, Serafina Aleksandrovna Astafieva (1876-1934), a graduate of the Mariinsky Ballet School, had a son, Vyacheslav.
The second time - on the ballerina Tselina Vladislavovna Spryshinskaya (1882–1930).
Children: Romuald and Tselina (1911–1959), who graduated ballet school, danced on the Mariinsky stage, married the engineer Konstantin Sevenard. Some believe that in fact she was the illegitimate daughter of Matilda Kshesinskaya from Nicholas II.
The son of Tselina, Yuri Sevenard, a hydraulic engineer and former deputy State Duma.
In 1990 he was elected a deputy of the Leningrad City Council people's deputies, which remained until the dissolution of the latter in December 1993.
In June 1991, he ran for mayor of Leningrad. He scored 10% (37,000 votes) in these elections and lost to A.A. Sobchak.
In December 1993, he was elected to the State Duma of the 1st convocation on the federal list of the Communist Party Russian Federation. From January 1994 to December 1995, he was First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Industry, Construction, Transport and Energy.
Grandson Konstantin Yurievich (1967), also an ex-deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the State Duma of the third convocation. In 2017, his daughter, a graduate of the Vaganov Academy Eleonora Sevenard (*1998), was officially admitted to ballet troupe Bolshoi Theatre. Her younger sister, Ksenia, studies at the Vaganova Academy.
Eleanor Sevenard - future star Bolshoi Theatre. Photo: social networks
From the editor: Note that it is worth making allowance for the fact that Mr. Sevenard has more than once surprised the public with his stories. So, he claimed that the diaries of Kshesinskaya, lost during the revolution, were allegedly bought by Gennady Timchenko - this information was categorically denied in the Timchenko fund.
Konstantin Sevenard also told the media that in a crypt in a cemetery in Warsaw he found a document recognizing Nicholas II's daughter from Kshesinskaya and his agreement ... with Rothschild and the US president. Documents, of course, Sevenard "did not survive."
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