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Round-the-world voyage: photographs and documents

Photographs and documents. Business cards, including the handwritten card of the captain of a Japanese ship (Capt. M. Kayahara). An article about Bramhall’s arrival in the USSR.

Autobiography, 1953

Leonid Yakobson’s autobiography, dated 17 September 1953: his own account of his life and work in the theatre. Here are the final version and a draft with corrections in his hand.

Irina Yakobson. San Francisco Ballet

Colour slides of Irina Yakobson in a ballet studio, showing movements and correcting dancers at the barre. The slide pouch is marked “Katy Raddatz, S.F. Ballet, Irina Jakobson”.

Photographs from Leonid Yakobson to Irina. Originals

Old and rare photographs: on stage and in rehearsal

Irina and Leonid Yakobson. Vosstaniya, 1975

Letters from Japan

Three letters Leonid Yakobson wrote from Japan in July 1967, by hand on hotel stationery, with their envelopes.

Vecherny Leningrad, 20 October 1975

I.D. Yakobson at a rehearsal