- Serguéi Diáguilev.
-Was a Russian art critic, patron, ballet impresario and founder of the Ballets Russes.
He was born to a wealthy and cultured family, in Selischi (Russia)
The tear 1905 he organized an expocition of russian retrats.
Diaghilev was The Sleeping Beauty by Tchaikovsky in London in 1921, despite a good reception by the public, was not a financial success. During his last years the Ballets Russes were seen as too intellectualfrecuentemenete, stylized, and rarely achieved the same success as in their first performances.
He died at the Grand Hotel des Bains de Mer the Lido of Venice in 1929 and was buried in the nearby island ofSan Michele.
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