Russian ballet. "Seasons" by Sergey Diaghilev. Comp. Kodzova S.Z.

“Russian Seasons” - legendary tour, organized in 1909 by Sergei Diaghilev, a talented popularizer of Russian art. Diaghilev’s performances went to the best European sites, the great Russian artists - Nizhinsky, Pavlova, Chaliapin, Kshesinskaya - the public of the main capitals of the world applied, and the prestige of the Russian opera and ballet was first raised to an unattainable height. In the theater world, each of them turned into a bewitching and shock show with colorful decorations created by Roerich, Serov, Benois, Bakst, luxurious costumes and the delightful music of Mussorgsky, Glinka, Borodin, Stravinsky, Prokofiev.

This book - One of the few, composed exclusively from the memoirs of contemporaries and participants in Russian seasons: dancers and choreographers, artists and composers, officials and theatrical critics tell about their history, whose revelations are conveying the atmosphere of the early XX century, when the Russian ballet and theater changed the face of the whole world culture.

earlier the book was published under the name "Russian Seasons" by Sergei Diaghilev.