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Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929) was a complex and powerful personality with boundless creative energy, most well known for his famous ballet company, the Ballet Russes. Growing up in a minor noble family in a remote part of Russia, as a very young man he became an influential art historian and publisher in St Petersburg. Moving soon onto a bigger stage, he became a central figure in the artistic worlds of Paris, London, Rome, Berlin and Madrid during the golden age of modern art. He lived through bankruptcy, war, revolution and exile. Furthermore he lived openly as a homosexual and his liaisons, most famously with Nijinsky, and his turbulent friendships with among others Stravinsky, Coco Chanel, Prokoviev and Jean Cocteau give his life an exceptionally dramatic quality. Dutch scholar Sjeng Scheijen is an internationally acclaimed expert on Russian art, and this biography, the first about Diaghilev in over thirty years, is based on extensive research in little known archives, especially in Russia.
Paperback, 500 Pages, Orig. Publ. 2009, This Ed. Publ. 2010
Author: Sjeng Scheijen