Sergey Diaghilev. "Russian Seasons" forever (new cover). SCAIENIEN SC.

The book of the Dutch historian Scheng Scheinen is the most complete biography of Sergei Diaghilev (1872–1929) to date. Diaghilev’s biography is similar to an extravagant adventurous romance, although everything is true in it. The seer and a tyrant, a shower catcher and an incorrigible loner, a visionary and a provocateur, he heard the music of the composer that used it and saw a dance before the first pa. Diaghilev dreamed of becoming a singer, a composer, an art critic, but undertook to compose a much more mysterious and global work of the image of future art. The ability to catch and bring to the light a new, unprecedented essence of his genius. The Diaghilev “Russian seasons” for a hundred years ahead determined the reputation of the art of Russia as the most advanced, extraordinary and exciting ballet phenomenon. The book of the SCIEEN is unique and interesting not only to the main character, but by the great many life details of Russian and European modernism, the drama of the relationship between the main names of music, theater and painting of the twentieth century. Indeed, during his short life, Diaghilev talked and collaborated with Chekhov, Roman-Korsakov, Bakst, Benois, Roden, Debyussi, Matisse, Picasso, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Mayakovsky, Balanchin, Coco Chanel and others. The book publishes rare photographs, documents, sketches of costumes and decorations invaluable evidence of art living without any boundaries.