Lydia Lopokova

The Right Honourable
The Lady Keynes
Lydia Lopokova in 1922
Born
Lidiya Vasilyevna Lopukhova

(1891-10-21)21 October 1891
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died8 June 1981(1981-06-08) (aged 89)
Seaford, East Sussex, England
OccupationBallerina
TitleLady Keynes
Spouses
Randolfo Barrocchi
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(m. 1916; ann. 1925)​
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(m. 1925)​
RelativesFyodor Lopukhov (brother)

Lydia Lopokova, Baroness Keynes (born Lidiya Vasilyevna Lopukhova, Russian: Лидия Васильевна Лопухова; 21 October 1891 – 8 June 1981)[1] was a Russian ballerina famous during the early 20th century.

Lopokova trained at the Imperial Ballet School. She toured with the Ballets Russes in 1910, and rejoined them in 1916 after an interlude in the United States.

Lopokova married the renowned English economist John Maynard Keynes in 1925 and was also known as the Lady Keynes. She largely disappeared from public view after Keynes's death in 1946 and spent her remaining years in Sussex.

  1. ^ Mackrell, Judith (2008). Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes. London: Orion. ISBN 9780297849087.