This collection relates primarily to the last ten years of les Ballets Russes of
Serge Dyagilev. There are a few items from 1910-1911 regarding
Michel Fokine. The Papers have been divided...
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This collection relates primarily to the last ten years of les Ballets Russes of
Serge Dyagilev. There are a few items from 1910-1911 regarding
Michel Fokine. The Papers have been divided into three sections and arranged chronologically. The first comprises holograph copies and some originals of letters written by
Dyagilev to various correspondents, such as
Michel Fokine,
Guido Gatti,
Désiré Inghelbrecht,
Sergei Grigoriev,
Serge Lifar, and
Alicia Markova. The second section consists of letters from various correspondents to
Dyagilev, as well as letters relating to
Dyagilev but neither written to nor by him. The last section contains documents, contracts, and receipts. Some of the material concerns the process in judicial cases brought against
Dyagilev by
Rastorgoueff,
Mme. Bewicke,
Gulbenkian, and
Nijinsky—various artists of les Ballets Russes—for failure to execute contracts. Other pieces are, by contrast, relative to the cases brought by
Dyagilev against
Fokine and
de Palignac.
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