My friend is Sergey Diaghilev. From the memories. Benois A.

He was charming and unbearable, sentimental and quick -tempered, universal favorite and at the same time a very lonely person. Sergey Diaghilev is a way of mystery even for his contemporaries. For some reason, some saw in him an upstart and a ski, while others - "Crusader of Beauty." He led a luxurious lifestyle, knowing what causes public interest. After his death, he did not leave a penny, even the funeral was paid by the sponsors. Diaghilev called himself a "zenate of European", which cut out a "cultural window to Europe" for Russia. It was he who introduced the world to the global, enduring value of Russian culture.

Sergei Diaghilev can rightfully be considered the ancestor of the domestic show business. He managed to play on the shocking of the ideas of his troupe and purposefully saturate the performances with various modernist techniques at all levels of the composition: scenery, costumes, music, plastic - all carried an imprint of the most fashionable trends of the era. “Russian Seasons” raised European art to a qualitatively new level of development and to this day do not cease to inspire creative bohemia in search of new ideas.

foreign connoisseurs of art to this day include their heads before the memory of Sergei Pavlovich Dyagilev, who enriched the West with achievements Russian culture.