i wonder if this photocard, from the imperial theater era in russia, say circa 1910, which has E. P. Edouardova handwritten in Russian on the back (for Eugenia Platonovna Eduardova), strikes anyone as a ballet image.
it could just as easily, i suppose, document a member of the imperial opera in the title role of TOSCA.
i recently became aware of Eduardova's emigration to the US, where the estate of her and her husband (dance critic Joseph Levitan) made a substantial donation of ballet related items to the New York Public Library, some of which are on display in the Performing Arts Library's current Diaghilev exhibition.
any/all suggestions gratefully accepted.

I thought Fokine's "Eunice" at first, but I am not sure about the headress and shoes being correct for that work. She was a demi-caractere and character dancer. I had no idea until I read your above information that she had reached New York where I now find she died in 1960. Thanks for posting the card. In most of the postcards I have seen of her she looks stately.
There is a good deal of information to be found about her post Marinsky life at: http://books.google.com/books?id=t-OLyzKAq...ova&f=false

PS
She was with Pavlova's company on her early tours to Sweden and appeared with her in London as well.
Vera Zorina was a pupil of Eduardova who also taught Leni Riefenstahl and a number of notable modern dancers.