Serge Diaghilev: References & Edit History

Serge Lifar, Serge Diaghilev, His Life, His Work, His Legend: An Intimate Biography (1940, reissued 1976), is an account by the Russian premier danseur and friend of Diaghilev. Arnold L. Haskell and Walter Nouvel, Diaghileff: His Artistic and Private Life (1935, reissued 1978); and Richard Buckle, Diaghilev (1979, reissued 1984), by the British dance critic, are worthy biographies. Sjeng Scheijen, Diaghilev: A Life (2010; originally published in Dutch, 2009), makes good use of sources in Russian and corrects many previous misconceptions about its subject. S.L. Grigoriev, The Diaghilev Ballet, 1909–1929 (1953, reissued 2009; originally published in Russian), is a standard work on the Russian ballet. Other studies are John Percival, The World of Diaghilev, rev. ed. (1979), a succinct popular study; and Charles Spencer, Philip Dyer, and Martin Battersby, The World of Serge Diaghilev (1974, reissued 1979). Books concerning Diaghilev and his dance troupe include Lynn Garafola, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes (1989, reissued 1998); and Lynn Garafola and Nancy Van Norman Baer (eds.), The Ballets Russes and Its World (1999).