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    Not only was she overwhelmed by the affection of the Australian public, but she met her future husband, Jim Barnes, on board a ship bound back to Europe. "The reception we received in Australia was absolutely unbelievable ... We had a lot of adoration in Los Angeles, I even went out with Cary Grant for a while, but we never felt the people there were very interested in us. In Australia, people were interested in us as people, they wanted us in their homes." After she returned to London to dance, Volkova's romance with the Australian flourished, but they did not marry because war was imminent. Full Article at The Australian
    The reception we received in Australia was absolutely unbelievable ... We had a lot of adoration in Los Angeles, I even went out with Cary Grant for a while, but we never felt the people there were very interested in us. In Australia, people were interested in us as people, they wanted us in their homes.
    SOURCE: The Australian 3 weeks ago
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  1. So they went and opened the safe, and there were all her jewels. And as she was looking at them she thought, 'If I take them, he will shoot me and take all the jewellery.' So she just looked at all those lovely things and said none of them was hers, and let them all go.
    SOURCE: The Australian 3 weeks ago
  2. Without the Ballets Russes coming to Australia there would be no dance in Australia. They engendered so much passion ... that little dance schools popped up everywhere. And they were schools that understood what classical ballet was about.
    SOURCE: The Australian 3 weeks ago
  3. A friend of my mother's was a concert pianist before the revolution and to make a living she was playing in a ballet school to accompany the dancers
    SOURCE: The Australian 3 weeks ago
  4. My grandmother's story is very touching ... She had a lot of very valuable jewellery, which she was keeping in the bank.
    SOURCE: The Australian 3 weeks ago
  5. There was a very large Russian community in Paris in those days ... It seemed that every second taxi driver in Paris was a Russian count or prince or duke.
    SOURCE: The Australian 3 weeks ago
  6. This year some relatives contacted me and wanted me to go to Moscow ... But I could not go because of what happened to my family.
    SOURCE: The Australian 3 weeks ago
  7. My father was told that they had better go because he had been in the navy and they wanted his head, so we went to the Crimean ports
    SOURCE: The Australian 3 weeks ago
  8. She said to my mother, 'Why don't you send Anna to Madame Preobrajenska?' But my parents could not afford the lessons, so Preobrajenska said, 'Why doesn't she come for a week, we will see.' I don't know what she saw in me because I never saw it as my future as a ballet dancer. But she took me on, and I ...
    SOURCE: The Australian 3 weeks ago
  9. WHEN I think about it, it seems almost that I have lived two lives ... There was my life as a ballerina, and everything after.
    SOURCE: The Australian 3 weeks ago

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