Vera Karalli was a Russian silent film actress and ballerina of Bolshoi Theatre and the "Ballets Russes" (Russian Ballet) led by Sergei Diaghilev. She was born Vera Alekseevna Karalli on July 27, 1889, in Moscow, Russia. In 1906 she graduated as a ballerina from the ballet class of Alexander Gorsky at Moscow Theatre School.