#трайбл #olgameos #bellydance #dancevideo #tribal #ольгамеос #fusionbellydance 16 costumes during 2 nights made by me with love! I enjoyed this performance project so much, and I was so happy to open new emotional sides in this wonderful dancers! Shemakhinskaya Bayaderka Festival / Moscow, Russia #SHBDANCE The name of our Festival translates as a Dancer from Shemakha. Shemakha is an ancient city of the Shirvan (Shemakha) khanate, which in the 19th century was part of the Russian Empire and was famous for its dancers, who remained after the Persian rule. The Russian painter Prince Grigory Gagarin who lived in the Caucasus in 1840–1855 depicted Shemakha dancers in a series of paintings in which he called them as Bayaderki. Shemakha dancers are mentioned to in the Comte de Gobineau's novel La Danseuse de Shamakha (1876). The French writer Alexander Dumas (the elder) also wrote about Shemakha Bayaderes in his book Le Caucase: Impressions de voyage (1859). The famous Russian intelligence officer, a participant in the Caucasian war (1817–1864), Baron Fyodor Tornau, in his book Воспоминанія кавказскаго офицера (1864) also mentioned famous dancers from Shemakha. In addition, the ancestors of one of the festival organizers were born in the Shemakha district.