Hyacinth the Hippo was based on Tatiana, and her partner in the pas de deux, Ben Ali Gator, on her husband David Lichine.
She and her husband David Lichine were among the ballet dancers who served as models for the Disney animators of Fantasia (1940).
With Tamara Toumanova, 13, and Irina Baronova, 13, one of the "baby ballerinas". This was a nickname given to the trio in 1933, during their first season in London, by the ballet writer Arnold Haskell.