Serge Diaghilev

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Age: 45

Job: Editor in chief of the magazine Mir iskusstva, founder of the Ballets Russes

Interests: Theater, opera, ballet

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Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Serge Diaghilev Leon Bakst

Lisbon, Portugal

02.01.18

You should finish sketching the scenery for Scarlatti at once. We need it for the season at the Paris Opera. It begins in February. I’ll be in Paris on January 20th.

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Serge Diaghilev

Madrid, Spain

23.12.17

is in Madrid

Serge Diaghilev

24.11.17

is going to Lisbon

Jean Cocteau

Roma, Italy

22.11.17

What happiness it is to create in the most picturesque ruins on earth, surrounded by young, genius artists.

Red wine intoxicates us, and Palini invites us to a thousand banquets. Diaghilev relates to Rome like Kandavl to his wife – with love and pride. His house is open to guests, he feeds all with tomato purée and pirozhki. See more

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Jean Cocteau

Roma, Italy

20.11.17

Rome is a provincial city. All capitals save for Paris are provincial. They talk shop right in the middle of the street. Everyone gets together in one single café. See more

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Serge Diaghilev Leon Bakst

14.11.17

At the end of December, I want to give a fundraising concert at the Paris Opera for the Italian Red Cross. I would like to ask you to make a sketch of the set design for Scarlatti. Prepare the sketch. I will be in Paris in 10 days. My address is Russian Consulate in Madrid.

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Vaslav Nijinsky

Buenos Aires, Argentina

28.09.17

One time I was frightened, too, by Diaghilev but not any more - I am working very hard and am making great progress. But this progress is very different from that Diaghilev makes. I am different from Diaghilev, I have a heart - and I work with my heart and soul and hope to develop my spirit. I am no longer Nijinsky of the Russian Ballet - I am Vijinsky of God - I love Him and God loves me.

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Mikhail Larionov

Paris, France

15.08.17

Diaghilev left with the troupe to Spain - and there he did not immediately succeed, as he expected, with the money. For me and Natalia Sergeevna there was a delay.

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Igor Stravinsky Serge Diaghilev

Diableler, Switzerland

25.07.17

I am absolutely broke!! I would be most grateful if you could see your way to sending me those 300 francs you still owe me. See more

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Leonide Massine

"Novedades" Cafe, Granada, Andalusia, Spain

25.06.17

In our favorite cafe, “Novedades,” we noticed a small, dark, young dancer, who stood out with his elegant movement and irresistible power. When he finished his dance, Diaghilev asked him to come to our table. He introduced himself as Felix Fernandez Garcia, and as we were talking I felt in him a quivering sensibility of a person who has original talent. See more

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Claude Debussy Serge Diaghilev

Paris, France

20.05.17

My dear Diaghilev, I tried to spot you as I left the performance of the ballet, to no avail. I called you on the phone in Chatelet, but I think it would’ve been easier to reach God.

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Jean Cocteau

Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France

18.05.17

I have heard the roar of a bayonet attack in Flanders, but it was nothing compared to what was happening in Théâtre du Châtelet! On the night of "Parade's" premier I was surprised at Diaghilev. This brave man listened to the roar of the hall, all white in the face as if a dead man. He was afraid—and he had reasons to be afraid. See more

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Serge Diaghilev

Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France

18.05.17

The premiere of the ballet "Parade."

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Igor Stravinsky

The production impressed me with its freshness and real originality. "Parade" has actually convinced me how right I was, when I thought so highly of Satie’s accomplishments and the role he played in French music by having contrasted the dim aesthetics of the age of impressionism, already living out its time, with his powerful and expressive language, devoid of any kind of pretentiousness and adornments.

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Ilya Ehrenburg

Paris, France

18.05.17

Before the war I have seen one of Diaghilev’s ballets that caused a scandal—Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring.” But I have never seen anything like what happened at the “Parade.” People, sitting in the orchestra, rushed towards the stage, and angrily screamed, “Curtain!” See more

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Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France

11.05.17

Diaghilev announced that he’d decided to alter the final scene of the ballet so as to make it more consistent with the spirit of the age. Instead of being handed a crown and sceptre, the Tsarevich would now be given a Phrygian cap and a red banner. This was to serve as a tribute to the “liberal” February Tevolution in Russia ... See more

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Age: 45

Job: Editor in chief of the magazine Mir iskusstva, founder of the Ballets Russes Interests: Theater, opera, ballet