Amilcar CGSS Amilcar CGSS The Amilcar CGSS (or CGSs) was a sporting car made by the Amilcar company from 1926 to 1929. The second "S" stood for surbaisse and the car was a lowered version of the CGS. Isadora Duncan, the American dancer, died in a CGSS when her silk scarf became entangled around the open-spoked wheels. The 1,074 cc four-cylinder engine from the CGS was fitted but in a slightly higher state of tune delivering . It was also available with a Cozette supercharger for those who needed more power. Thus equipped, a CGSS won the 1927 Monte Carlo Rally. Driven
Nina Anisimova (dancer) to the writer Konstantin Derzhavin. Nina Anisimova (dancer) Nina Aleksandrovna Anisimova (Russian: Нина Александровна Анисимова; born St Petersburg, 27 January 1909, died Leningrad, 23 September 1979) was a Russian dancer and choreographer. She studied at the Petrograd (later Leningrad) Ballet School with Maria Fedorovna Romanova, Alexander Shiryaev, and Agrippina Vaganova. In 1926 she graduated into the Maly Theatre of Opera and Ballet, then from 1927 to 1958 danced with GATOB (later Kirov Ballet). In 1932 she created the role of Thérèse in Vasily Vainonen's "Flames of Paris", demonstrating her abilities as a character dancer. In 1936 she choreographed her first