page_title: Valentina Kachouba
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Valentina Kachouba / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: Mme. Valentine Kachouba Abstract/medium: 1 negative&#160;: glass&#160;; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
context_page_description: Valentina Kachouba, also written as Valentine Kashuba, was a Russian ballet dancer, a member of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company from 1916 and 1921; as one the last surviving members of the troupe, her memories and photographs were considered especially valuable as a record of the ballet and its members.
context_section_description: Kachouba was said to be from Moscow, or in some publicity, the daughter of a guard officer and a Persian princess in Samarkand.
caption: Valentina Kachouba and Alexandra Wassilewska, from the Library of Congress.
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