Erté-- A Lasting Tradition and One-of-a-Kind Artist

The artist called Erté (obvious "Air-Tay") was born in 1892 in St. Petersburg, Russia, to Russia's elite and provided the name of Romain Petrovich de Tirtoff. Paradoxically, that coincided year The Nutcracker ballet premiered in St. Petersburg. His self-invented name, the phonetic combination of his initials R and also T, would certainly come to

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