Published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the great impresario’s birth. The names of those he worked with, those great and fabulous beings like Goncharova, Stravinsky, Picasso, Fokine, Bakst, Kandinsky, Debussy, Satie, Prokofiev, Benois, Larionov, Balanchine, billow like genies in our imagination still.
Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World
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Edition:Hardback978057134801515/09/2022From a Bookshelf nearby
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From the C7th to the present day... It transported Vikings to the Caspian and was crucial in the Battle of Stalingrad... a remarkable account of diversity and strategic significance.
The Volga: A History
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Red Stars
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How Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia, controlling the economy through a fiefdom of oligarchs, and have used that wealth to extend their own influence. This hardba... read more
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MS is an outstanding literary voice in contemporary Russia: here she creates a portrait of three Russian-Jewish generations sifted from the detritus in a late aunt's flat. This book is diff... read more
In Memory of Memory
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