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Serge Diaghilev: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Sergey Pavlovich Dyagilev
Born March 31, 1872 • Veliky Novgorod • Russia
Died August 19, 1929 (aged 57) • Venice • Italy
Founder Ballets Russes

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Serge Diaghilev, c. 1916.
Feodor Chaliapin as Tsar Boris Godunov in Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov, c. 1910, based on Aleksandr Pushkin's drama of the same name.
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Alexandra Danilova in Swan Lake.
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Boris Kochno
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George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
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Serge Lifar
Serge Lifar
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Alexander Placide
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Ernest Ansermet
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Bronislava Nijinska
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Dmitry Shostakovich sits at a desk by a window, looking at sheet music, wearing glasses and a suit, with papers and books arranged on the desk.
Dmitri Shostakovich
Russian composer
Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlova
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Alexei Ratmansky
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Agrippina Vaganova
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