Sergei Diaghilev. "Russian Seasons" forever

The book of the Dutch historian Schngen Scheien is the most complete biography of Sergei Diaghilev (1872–1929) to date.
Diaghilev dreamed of becoming a singer, a composer, an art critic, but undertook to compose a much more mysterious and global work - the image of the future art. The ability to catch and bring into a new, unprecedented - the most essence of his genius.
The Diaghilev “Russian Seasons” for a hundred years ahead determined the reputation of the art of Russia as the most advanced, extraordinary and exciting ballet phenomenon.
Veaty and a tyrant, a shower catcher and an incorrigible loner, a visionary and a provocateur, he heard the music earlier composer who composed her and saw a dance before the first pa. The book of the SCIEEN is unique and interesting not only to the main character, but by the great many life details of Russian and European modernism, the drama of the relationship between the main names of music, theater and painting of the twentieth century. Indeed, during his short life, Diaghilev talked and collaborated with Chekhov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Bakst, Benois, Roden, Debyussi, Matisse, Picasso, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Mayakovsky, Balanchin, Coco Chanel and others.
Diaghilev biography is similar to an extravagant adventurous novel, although everything in it is true.
The book publishes rare photographs, documents, sketches of costumes and scenery - priceless evidence of art living without any boundaries