English | 2022 | ISBN: 0374139695 | 375 pages | True EPUB | 26.65 MB
"Rupert Christiansen has produced a spectacular read, one fully (and finally!) deserving of its subject—giddy, kaleidoscopic, rich with quirky detail and strange delight. The pages turn themselves."—Simon Morrison, author ofBolshoi Confidential
Rupert Christiansen, a renowned dance critic and arts correspondent, presents a sweeping history of the Ballets Russes and of Serge Diaghilev's dream of bringing Russian art and culture to the West.
