Trivia

After the revolution of 1917 she left Moskow and moved to Odessa, later (in 1920) to Berlin.

Exter also decorated her Berlin home, made paintings and statuettes. One of these statuettes is now in The National Gallery of Australia.

She was born circa 1893 in the Russian empire. Her father was from Holland origin, and her mother was a Russian.

Painter Alexandra Exter designed costumes for her and her dancers.

It's possible that Elsa Krüger didn't survive the war. She reportedly died in 1941 in Germany.

Her photos also appeared on numerous cards and postcards.

Elsa Krüger was a dancer, a friend of famous painter Alexandra Exter and an actress who starred in one of best movies of Russian empire - "Silent Witnesses" directed by Yevgeny Bauer (1914).

Her relationship with a very rich businessman helped her to open The Russian Romantic Ballet Theatre in Berlin ("Russische romantische Ballett").

Elsa studied at a ballet school and about 1913 started to perform at one of Moscow theaters with modern dances.

When she was a famous dancer they called her "queen of tango".

Elsa Krüger was also linked to the painter Paul Mak (1891-1967), who also was a tango dancer and her partner in Moscow at the theatre.