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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Mathilda-Marie Feliksovna Kschessinskaya (Polish: Matylda KrzesiA ska, Russian: ETHuETHdegreeNCETH ETH NiETH'ETHdegree ETH ETH ETH ETH ETH N ETH ETH ETH ETHdegree ETH'NeETH N ETH ETH N ETH ETHdegreeN (31 August [O.S. 19 August] 1872 - 6 December 1971, (also known as Her Serene Highness Princess Romanova-Krasinskaya from 1921) was a Russian ballerina from a family of Polish origin. Her father Feliks KrzesiA ski and her brother both danced in St. Petersburg. She eventually attained the highest rank, that of prima ballerina assoluta. She is also remembered for having served as mistress of the future Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. She was known in the West as Mathilde Kschessinska or Matilda Kshesinskaya. Kschessinska was born at Ligovo, near Peterhof. Like all her Polish family, to whom she was known as Matylda KrzesiA ska, Mathilde performed at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre of St Petersburg with the renowned Imperial Ballet. Kschessinskaya made her debut in a pas de deux from La Fille Mal Gardee during a graduation performance in 1890 attended by Emperor Alexander III and the rest of the Imperial family, including the future Nicholas II.

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