- physdesc
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- unitid
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{"value"=>"*MGZMC-Res. 10", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"19642", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1918?-1929", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"questionable", "normal"=>"1918/1929"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Serge Diaghilev correspondence"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"The <span class=\"corpname\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts <span class=\"subarea\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division</span></span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Originals letters, holographs and typescripts, written primarily to <span class=\"persname\">Serge Diaghilev</span>, covering many aspects of his life. The focal points of the collection are letters from <span class=\"persname\">Lady Juliet Duff</span> and a group of letters from <span class=\"persname\">Lady Rothermere</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Lord Rothermere</span> business associates, <span class=\"persname\">Ernest Outhwaite</span> and <span class=\"persname\">William Luck Warden</span>. These letters show how <span class=\"persname\">Diaghilev</span> fiananced his company, particularly the 1928 and 1929 London seasons."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Serge Diaghilev correspondence, *MGZMC-Res. 10. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Diaghilev, Serge, 1872-1929", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Sergeˇi Pavlovich Dyagilev was born in the province of Novgorod on March 31, 1872. In 1890 he came to St. Petersburg as a law student and soon became a member of the circle of young musicians, painters, and writers assembled around Alexander Benois and Léon Bakst. In the same year of 1899 in which he co-founded the progressive art magazine “Mir Iskoustva” (“The World of Art”), Dyagilev was appointed artistic advisor of the Maryinsky Theatre, where he was in charge of the publication of the theatre annual and of the highly successful productions of “Sadko” and “Sylvia.” He resigned from his post in 1901, and after the magazine stopped appearing in 1904, he concentrated on organizing exhibitions of Russian art in St. Petersburg and Paris.</p> <p>In 1908 Dyagilev brought a production of “Boris Godunov” to Paris with Chaliapin and was then invited to present a Paris season of Russian opera and ballet in 1909. With some of the best dancers from St. Petersburg and Moscow he scored a unique triumph in May and June 1909 in Paris. Repeat visits during the following years led to the gradual formation of his Ballets Russes, which became an independent private company when Vaslav Nijinsky resigned from the Maryinsky Theatre. He directed les Ballets Russes until his death on August 19, 1929, in Venice. His company, financed solely by the European aristocracy, was often on the verge of bankruptcy and never returned to Russia after the October Revolution (nor did it ever perform there).</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>Originals letters, holographs and typescripts, written primarily to <span class=\"persname\">Serge Diaghilev</span>, covering many aspects of his life. The focal points of the collection are letters from <span class=\"persname\">Lady Juliet Duff</span> and a group of letters from <span class=\"persname\">Lady Rothermere</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Lord Rothermere</span> business associates, <span class=\"persname\">Ernest Outhwaite</span> and <span class=\"persname\">William Luck Warden</span>. These letters show how <span class=\"persname\">Diaghilev</span> fiananced his company, particularly the 1928 and 1929 London seasons.|||Among the correspondents are <span class=\"persname\">Anton Dolin</span>, <span class=\"persname\">P. J. S. Richarson</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Ruth Page</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Constant Lambert</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Cyril Beaumont</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Cole Porter</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Dorothy Coxon</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Rupert Doone</span>, <span class=\"persname\">William Walton</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Sacherverell Sitwell</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Lady Sibyl Colefax</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Celia</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Saxton Nobel</span>, and <span class=\"persname\">Mary Hoyt Wiborg</span>. The arrangement within the series is alphabetical, with separate folders for those with significant amounts of correspondence. The last folder has the list of contents that came with the collection.|||Language of material: English, French, Russian.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Serge Diaghilev correspondence is arranged in eleven series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19642#c336245'>I. Dancers (about)</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19642#c336262'>II. Dancers (from)</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19642#c336284'>III. Designers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19642#c336286'>IV. Musicians, composers.</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19642#c336311'>V. Writers</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19642#c336319'>VI. Management and finance</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19642#c336366'>VII. Audience</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19642#c336381'>VIII. The Press</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19642#c336397'>IX. Society</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19642#c336447'>X. Miscellany</a></div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/dan/19642#c336466'>XI. “Letters to Diaghilev”</a></div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<ul> <li>I. Dancers (about)</li> <li>II. Dancers (from)</li> <li>III. Designers</li> <li>IV. Musicians, composers</li> <li>V. Writers</li> <li>VI. Management and Finance</li> <li>VII. Audience</li> <li>VIII. Press</li> <li>IX. Society</li> <li>X. Miscellany</li> <li>XI. \"Letters to Diaghilev\" - original list of contents of the collection</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift. Received: July 1992.</p>"}
- physloc
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{"value"=>"*MGZMC-Res. 10 [Print]", "type"=>"local_call", "supress_display"=>true}
- date_inclusive_start
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1918
- date_inclusive_end
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1929
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p>Use microfilm: *ZBD-162</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"<p>Holographs and typescripts</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Original letters, both business and personal, written primarily to Serge Diaghilev, covering many aspects of his life</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>The focal points of the collection are the letters from Lady Juliet Duff and a group of letters from Lady Rothermere and Lord Rothermere's business associates, Ernest Outhwaite and William Luck Warden. These letters show how Diaghilev financed his company, particularly the 1928 and 1929 London seasons</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Among the other correspondents are Anton Dolin, P. J. S. Richardson, Ruth Page, Constant Lambert, Cyril Beaumont, Cole Porter, Dorothy Coxon, Rupert Doone, William Walton, Sacheverell Sitwell, Lady Sibyl Colefax, Celia and Saxton Noble and Mary Hoyt Wiborg</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Includes the list of contents that came with the collection</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
{"value"=>"<p>Inquire at reference desk for register</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
- langmaterial_code
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eng
fre
rus
mul
- keydate
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1918
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"In English, French, and Russian"}
{"value"=>"English"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Henley Haslam.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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25 folders 195 items
- date_start
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1918
- date_end
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1929