Russian ballet. Handmade photo album. 

N.p., ca 1940s-1970s.
Oblong 32mo, 19 l. (16 photos).

In red brown cloth. Some photos are printed later. 
In good condition, light overall wear.

The album contains seven photos of Galina Ulanova (1910-1998), one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century. Five of these photos are possibly from souvenir photobooks. 
The collection includes the following photos:
1. Galina Ulanova as Giselle in Adolphe Adam's ballet 'Giselle' at the Mariinsky Theatre. She performed this role twice before WWII, in 1932 and 1934.
2. Galina Ulanova as Odile in Tchaikovsky’s 'Swan Lake' at the Bolshoi Theatre, with choreography by Asaf Messerer and Ekaterina Dolinskaia, first performed in 1944. This is a very rare photo in this costume.
3. Galina Ulanova as Aurora in Tchaikovsky’s 'The Sleeping Beauty' at the Mariinsky Theatre, first performed in 1929.
4. Galina Ulanova as Masha in Tchaikovsky’s 'The Nutcracker' at the Mariinsky Theatre, with choreography by Vasili Vainonen, first performed in 1934.
5. Galina Ulanova as Odette in Tchaikovsky’s 'Swan Lake' at the Bolshoi Theatre, with choreography by Asaf Messerer and Ekaterina Dolinskaia, first performed in 1944.
6. and 9. Alla Osipenko, a pupil of Agrippina Vaganova, as Odette at the former Mariinsky Theatre, with choreography by Marius Petipa, edited by Konstantin Sergeev, first performed in 1954.
7. and 10. Galina Mezentseva as Odile at the former Mariinsky Theatre, first performed in 1973.
8. Alla Shelest, a pupil of Agrippina Vaganova, as Odile at the former Mariinsky Theatre. She performed this role twice, in 1938 and 1942.
11. Possibly Inna Zubkovskaya.
12. Galina Ulanova and Boris Khokhlov in 'The Fountain of Bakhchisarai' at the Bolshoi Theatre, first performed in 1944.
13. Galina Ulanova in the dressing room as Juliet at the Bolshoi Theatre, first performed in 1946, photo taken in 1960.
15. and 16. Alexander Bogatyrev as Siegfried in 'Swan Lake' at the Bolshoi Theatre, first performed in 1972.