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This illustration shows the Lezsghins carrying the murdered stranger's body to dispose of it. 'Two attendants pull back a cunningly-devised panel set in the wall, through which, sparkling in the pearl=grey light of dawn, can be seen the swift falling waters of the Terek. The guards arch their shoulders and, with sudden movement of their arms, hurl the body through the opening.'\n\nThe Ballet Thamar was created for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with choreography by Mikhail Fokine, music by Mily Balakirev and designs by Léon Bakst and first performed by the Ballets Russes on 20 May 1912 at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. It was first performed by the Ballets Russes in London on 12 June 1912 at the Royal Opera House. It was performed at the end of the post War London Coliseum on 13 March 1919 when Lubov Tchernicheva took the title role as the Queen of Georgia and Leonide Massine was the stranger Prince. 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