Background
Kshesinskii, Iosif was born on February 5, 1868 in Petersburg. Brother of Mathilde Kschessinska.
Kshesinskii, Iosif was born on February 5, 1868 in Petersburg. Brother of Mathilde Kschessinska.
Graduated from the Petersburg Theatre School, 1886.
Dancer at the Mariinskii Theatre, 1914-1928, with some intervals. Taught at the Petersburg Theatre School, 1896-1905, and at the Leningrad Choreographic School, 1918-1927. Left memoirs which remain unpublished (the manuscript is in the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum, Moscow).