Pavlova Prefered Grapes Over Chocolate

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Photo Credit: Anna Pavlova in costume for the Chopin Variations (also known as Love's Message) 1911 from Anna Pavlova Her Life & Art By Keith Money


Anna Pavlova was interviewing with the Daily Mail on November 2, 1911, and the interviewer accompanied her as she was shopping for stockings while answering the interviewer's questions. The interviewer thought they would spend all day in this one store, but Anna Pavlova got distracted when she saw sweets and bon-bons. Pavlova immediately started choosing sweets which the interviewer says how much they bought would last for four months. The sweets were not for her though they were for all the children she knew and London and friends in Russia who had never tasted English sweets. She also bought sweets for the interviewer.

The interviewer was caught off guard by her shopping for others and not herself, but he found it even more fascinating that Anna Pavlova didn't like chocolate like the women he knew. Anna Pavlova instead loved grapes.

"But she said irrelevantly with a look of rapture on her face, "I do like the grapes I have had in London this week. Oh! lovely big Muscats and such flavour, so splendid. We have big grapes in Petersburg, but not like those I eat here." - Quote from Anna Pavlova


When you read this interview, it's interesting how the interviewer seems so surprised how Anna Pavlova is off stage. How relatable she is and not so different from him. How down to earth she is and always thinking of others. 

 When you read the previous interviews by this same interviewer, he compares Pavlova to a goddess on a pedestal. Still, when he meets her in person, he finds out she just flesh and blood like him and not some godly figure he imagined in his head still. All these quirks about her he discovers while spending time with her like her loving the grape variety Muscat instead of chocolate  fascinates him.


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