Smakov, Gennady, 1940[?]-1988. Draft, notes for biography of Marius Petipa, (S) *MGZMD 88, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
This collection contains research materials, notes and drafts for Smakov's biography of Marius Petipa. The manuscript is unfinished. The items are in the order and arrangement as received by the Dance Collection.
Gennady Smakov, scholar, translator and author, died at the age of 48 in 1988 in the United States. He was born in the U.S.S.R., educated at Leningrad State University, and became a lecturer at the Institute of Theater, Music and Cinema. He emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1975. He wrote articles about theater and dance for American periodicals and was the author of two books, Baryshnikov:From Russia to the West,1981, and The Great Russian Dancers,1984. He was working on a biography of Marius Petipa when he died.
This collection contains research materials, notes and drafts for Smakov's biography of Marius Petipa. The manuscript is unfinished. The items are in the order and arrangement as received by the Dance Collection.|||Language: in Russian and English
Estate of Gennady Smakov. Received: August 1992.
Processed by Irina Klyagin.
Photographs which were received with the collection have been separated from the manuscript materials and are located in *MGZEB. The photographs are for the Petipa biography and some from Smakov's book The Great Russian Dancers.-- *MGZEB 92-17894