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Tamara Tchinarova ( tr. Chinarova, russian: Тамара Чинарова), also known as Tamara Finch, (18 July 1919 – 31 August 2017) was a
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-born émigré Russian and French
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who contributed significantly to the development of Australian dance companies and was a Russian/English interpreter for touring ballet companies. She was a dance writer and author, as Tamara Finch, of a number of non-fiction books. She was the first wife of actor
Peter Finch Frederick George Peter Ingle Finch (28 September 191614 January 1977) was an English-Australian actor of theatre, film and radio. Born in London, he emigrated to Australia as a teenager and was raised in Sydney, where he worked in vaudeville ...
.


Early life and family

Born Tamara Yevsevievna Rekemchuk (russian: Тама́ра Евсевиевна Рекемчу́к) in 1919 in
Cetatea Albă Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi ( uk, Бі́лгород-Дністро́вський, Bílhorod-Dnistróvskyy, ; ro, Cetatea Albă), historically known as Akkerman ( tr, Akkerman) or under different names, is a city, municipality and port situated on ...
,
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to a Ukrainian journalist father with
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antecedents and a nurse mother of
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n descent. Her maternal grandfather, Kristapor Chinaryan, was an
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landowner who survived the
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by the
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. In 1895, Chinaryan fled to Bessarabia, where he adopted the
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surname of Chinarov. He married a Ukrainian woman and eventually became prosperous, owning three vineyards, three houses and a hotel. Her grandfather, she wrote, "would achieve success in business even on a desert island. He was practical, quick, receptive, generous, envied and loved." During the
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s, he sheltered Jewish families in his basements. Her mother, Anna, studied nursing and served with the
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during
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. There she met an army captain of
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and
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n descent, Yevsevy Rekemchuk, and married him in 1918. In the 1920s, the family moved to
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, where her father had sought a journalistic career and one day took his daughter to see a performance of the
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. Young Tamara made up her mind then to become a ballerina. She soon began her dance training with émigré ballerinas from the
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. In 1926, her father resolved to return to the
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. She describes him as "idealistic" and wanting to help build a new society. Tamara's mother, however, was resolutely Anti-Bolshevik and decided to stay on in Paris with Tamara and neither ever saw him again. Tamara took her mother's maiden name, Chinarova (transliterated in French as "Tchinarova"). Unbeknown to his abandoned family, her father married again in the USSR. His second wife was a Ukrainian actress, Lidia Prikhodko, and in 1927 they had a son, Alexandr Rekemchuk (d. 2017), who went on to become an accomplished author. Meanwhile, Yevsevy worked for the
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but was arrested, imprisoned and finally shot in 1937 during the
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. He was posthumously rehabilitated after
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's death. In 1940, Tchinarova's grandfather, Kristapor, 88, and his wife were murdered by Soviet troops, who stormed their home and bayoneted them. Other family members were exiled to
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, where several of them died.


Ballet career

At age 10, Tchinarova began training in Paris with renowned ballet master Olga Preobrazhenskaya, formerly of the
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. In 1931, while still twelve, she went on tour to
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and
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where she was introduced as "the littlest ballerina of the world." In 1932, she performed in Romania, including a show in her home town.
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musicians accompanied the tour and Tchinarova learned complex gypsy dances, which she later used in ''
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'' and other dances. In Paris, choreographer
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noticed Tchinarova and her classmates, and chose them for dance performances in operetta productions, notably, ''
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.'' Following the death of impresario
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a number of successor ballet companies formed in Europe. They included
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,
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and Colonel
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's ''
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''. While still in her teens Tchinarova joined various of these companies. In 1932, she joined the
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and quickly gained prominence. Tchinarova and classmates
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, who became a fast friend,
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and
Tamara Toumanova Tamara Toumanova ( ka, თამარა თუმანოვა; 2 March 1919 – 29 May 1996) was a Georgian-American prima ballerina and actress. A child of exiles in Paris after the Russian Revolution of 1917, she made her debut at the ag ...
were dubbed Balanchine's "
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" and known as the "Russians who have never danced in Russia." In 1936, she travelled on tour to Australia with de Basil's Monte Carlo Russian Ballet. During that tour she was elated when the critic, Arnold Haskell, described her performance in
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's ''
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'', as "brilliant" and "outstanding". Two years later in 1938 accompanied by her mother, she returned to Australia with another de Basil troupe, the
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. She was admired for her portrayal of Tamar the Georgian Queen in
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's dramatic ballet '' Thamar'', and was praised for her dancing in demi-character roles in ballets such as ''Le Beau Danube''. In 1939, at the conclusion of the ''Covent Garden Russian Ballet'' tour, along with a number of her colleagues, Tchinarova and her mother opted to stay in Australia. Tchinarova taught at the Frances Scully School of Dancing while her mother worked in a factory, stitching women's underwear progressing later to making ballet costumes. In 1941 Tchinarova was asked to join the
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founded by the Dane,
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, a former ballerina in de Basil's touring companies. For Kirsova she created a number of roles, including that of ''Satana'' in Kirsova's three-act production of ''
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'', which premiered in November of that year. During the 1940s Tchinarova's contribution to newly developing Australian companies cannot be over estimated. These included ''the Polish-Australian Ballet'' and the
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. During her time with the latter she was not only a principal dancer but, supplementing
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's poor recall of detail, she contributed the lion's share to re-staging with him ballets such as '' Carnaval'', ''
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'' and ''Le Beau Danube'' from the Ballets Russes repertoire. After the end of the Borovansky Ballet season in 1946 Tchinarova danced in two musical productions ''
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'' and '' Gay Rosalinda''. In 1948, she left for London with her husband. Her devoted mother also relocated to London, where she died in 1979.


Later life

Having retired from performing, Tamara Finch initially worked as a Russian interpreter for trade delegations to and from the Soviet Union, but this gave way to a return to the world of ballet helping many English-speaking dance companies, including
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, during tours to Russia, and for Russian companies touring in the West. She also developed a writing career contributing to a range of dance magazines, notably in the ''
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''. In 1958 she was co-author, with Hector Cameron, of a collection of Russian fairy tales for children, entitled ''The Little King: The book of twenty nights and one night''. In the 1980s and 90s she published a number of biographies of dancers and an autobiography in 2007.


Personal life

With
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raging, Tchinarova was first engaged to the Australian photojournalist, Fred Breen who was in the
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. He was killed in a bombing raid over Germany in 1942. Some months later, she met an aspiring English-born Australian actor,
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. Although he was in the forces, they were able to marry in 1943 and she continued her dancing career. Following encouragement from
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and his wife who saw Finch in an Australian stage production of
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's ''
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'', Tchinarova and Finch decided to move to
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in 1948, marking the end of her dancing career with a view to enhancing his acting prospects. They had a daughter, Anita, born in 1949. The couple separated in 1956, after Tchinarova discovered his affair with actress
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during filming in
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. They were divorced in 1959. Tamara Finch continued living in London until 2004 when she retired, at age 87, to Spain to be with her family. In 2006 she met for the first time her long lost half-brother, , eight years her junior, who came to visit from
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, and she wrote movingly about how impressed she was by him. Tamara Tchinarova Finch died in
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in 2017.


Bibliography

As Tamara Finch: *''The first
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'', 1985. *''Dance portrait:
Stephanie Dabney Stephanie Renee Dabney (July 11, 1958 – September 28, 2022) was an American dancer who performed as a prima ballerina with Dance Theatre of Harlem from 1979 through 1994. Dabney is best known for her performances in John Taras' ''The Firebird' ...
'', 1986 *''
Matz Skoog Matz Skoog (born 1957) is a Swedish dancer and director, and the artistic director of English National Ballet from 2001 to 2005. Skoog was born in Stockholm on 10 April 1957. He trained with the Royal Swedish Ballet, Royal Swedish Ballet School. ...
'', 1987 *''Vaganova's pupil:
Irina Kolpakova Irina Aleksandrovna Kolpakova (russian: Ирина Александровна Колпакова; born 22 May 1933)Nijinska as task-master'', 1991 * ''
Tamara Toumanova Tamara Toumanova ( ka, თამარა თუმანოვა; 2 March 1919 – 29 May 1996) was a Georgian-American prima ballerina and actress. A child of exiles in Paris after the Russian Revolution of 1917, she made her debut at the ag ...
''. publ. Dancing Times. July 1997, p. 889—891, 893. *''Dancing into the Unknown: My Life in the Ballets Russes and Beyond'', 2007.


See also

* ''
Ballets Russes The Ballets Russes () was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America. The company never performed in Russia, where the Revolution disrupted society. A ...
'' *
Rachel Cameron Rachel Cameron (27 March 1924—6 March 2011) was an Australian ballet dancer and teacher. She was one of the leading dancers in early Australian ballet in the 1940s, performing with the Borovansky and Kirsova ballet companies, and was one of t ...
*
List of Russian ballet dancers This is a list of ballet dancers from the Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Russian Federation, including both ethnic Russians and people of other ethnicities. This list includes as well those who were born in these three states but later emigra ...


Further reading

*Salter, Frank. ''Borovansky: the man who made Australian ballet'', Wildcat Press, Sydney, 1980 *Potter, Michelle. "A strong personality and a gift for leadership': Hélène Kirsova in Australia", ''Dance Research: The Journal of the Society for Dance Research'', Vol 13, No 2 (Autumn-Winter, 1995), Edinburgh University Press. * *
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obituary 12 September 201

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obituary in the Register 12 September 201

(subscription necessary) *Meylac, Michael. ''Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes: Stories from a Silver Age'', I.B. Tauris, London 2018.


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