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Chavez, Monsieur 157
Chevigné, Comtesse de 53
Chopin, Frédéric 3, 192, 197, 202, 203, 204
Chopiniana 45
Clark, Vera see Savina, Vera
Cléopatra 59–60, 59f
Cobb, Jonathan 251
Cocteau, Jean 67, 119, 241
Carnaval 79
and Diaghilev 39
Les Noces party 216f
Parade 191
and Rubinstein 60
Le Sacre du printemps 140, 144, 145, 149, 281n
Le Spectre de la rose 89
on theatre 19
and Vaslav 67, 73f, 79, 97, 109, 118, 170, 177, 244, 254
Vaslav’s mental illness 220–1
Cologne 119
Craig, Edward Gordon 258
Crisp, Clement 259
Croce, Alene 249–50
Cunard, Lady 95
Cunningham, Merce 253
Cure, The 189
D
Dalcroze, Émile Jaques-102–3, 120–1, 123, 131
Dandré, Baron Victor 33–4
Danilova, Alexandra 79
D’Annunzio, Gabriele 60
Daphnis et Chloé 108, 117
de Chirico, Giorgio 215f
de Putti, Lya 226
de Valois, Ninette 222, 227, 256
de Waal, Edward 68
Deauville 117
Debussy, Claude
L’Aprèsmidi d’un faune 72, 222, 271n
Les Chansons de Bilitis 249
Jeux 3, 117, 120, 122–3, 124
Le Sacre du printemps 129, 142, 149
Degas, Edgar 58, 59
Dempsey, Jack 189
Denby, Edwin 93, 259
Derain, André 214, 216
Desmoiselles d’Avignon, Les (Picasso) 112
Dezentje, Frederika 226–7, 228
Diaghilev, Pavel 40
Diaghilev, Sergey Pavlovich
and Aga Khan 105
Apollo 79 appearance 39
L’Aprèsmidi d’un faune 90, 100, 101, 102–3, 106, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 222
Ballets Russes 37, 48–9, 81, 84, 143, 242
and Benois 91
and Bronia 152, 171–2, 174, 217–18f
and Craig 258
death 224–5
and Debussy 72
diabetes 215
and Dolin 50
and Duncan 23
English words 113n
family and childhood 39–41
Les femmes de bonne humeur 191
and Filosofov 44
finances 71, 118, 138, 150
and Fokine 90, 99–100, 102, 108–9, 117
and Futurism 124
and Fyodorova 68
Giselle 83
homosexuality 43, 44, 45, 74, 247
Jeux 115, 116, 117
and Karsavina 121, 217f
and Kochno 215
and Kshesinskaya 104
Legat’s suicide 25
La Légende de Joseph 125, 151, 177, 178
and Lifar 222
London 95–6, 113–15
and Markevitch 224
and Massine 167, 177, 178, 191–2, 214–15
and Mavrin 44, 50, 68, 178
Mir iskusstva 41–2, 44
Les Noces 182, 216
L’Oiseau de feu 74
Palace Theatre 174, 175
Paris 44, 45, 47, 52–6, 61, 63, 65–9, 71
Le Pavillon d’Armide 39
Petrushka 81, 90, 91, 126
and Piltz 138
possessions 55
post war 213–14, 215
Prince Igor 60–1
and Rodin 118
and Roerich 126
and Romola 145, 147, 154, 244–5
Le Sacre du printemps 2, 4–5, 126, 128–30, 133, 134, 137–8, 139–40, 142, 144–5, 150, 151, 165, 177, 214, 228, 243
Schéhérazade 77, 79
sea travel 152–3
and Sert 54, 67
The Sleeping Princess 215–16
and Sokolva 13
South American tour 191, 194
Spain 191–2, 193, 194, 213
Le Spectre de la rose 86, 89
and Stravinsky 74, 167
Tauride Palace exhibition 42–3
United States tour 182, 183–4, 188
meets Vaslav 39, 46–7, 48–51
relationship with Vaslav 3–4, 63, 68, 69–71, 75, 76, 83–4, 94, 96–8, 113, 119, 122, 135, 138, 150, 152, 170, 241–4, 246–8, 255–6
in Vaslav’s diary 205, 206, 207–8, 209, 211
Vaslav’s dismissal 166, 171, 173, 178
Vaslav’s marriage 159–60, 161, 162–6, 168, 171
Vaslav’s mental illness 219, 222, 223, 224
Venice 72–3, 80, 153
and Volkonsky 45
and Zuikov 63
Dieu bleu, Le 109
Dolin, Anton 50, 217, 220, 222, 230, 233, 234, 243
Dos Passos, John 216f
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor 170
Draper, Muriel 96, 148, 213, 254
Dreyfus, Alfred 247
Drummond, John 240
Drury Lane Theatre 178
Duff, Lady Juliet 276n
Duncan, Isadora 100, 217f
children drowned 137
and Fokine 23, 26, 27
as hostess 73f
and Kshesinskaya 14
and Rambert 121
in St Petersburg 22–4, 47–8
Théàtre des Champs Elysées 3
and Vaslav 73
Durcal, Duchesse de 194
E
Edwards, Alfred 54
Edwards, Misia see Sert, Misia
Eksteins, Modris 260
Elektra 179
Eliot, T. S. 210, 258
Ephrussi, Madame 68, 69
Ephrussi, Charles 68
Ephrussi, Maurice 68, 69
Estrade-Guerra, Oswald d’ 195
F
Fâcheux, Les 216–17
Faune see Aprèsmidi d’un faune, L’
Fauré, Gabriel 54
Femmes de bonne humeur, Les 141f, 191, 243
Férnandez García, Félix 213
Festin, Le 57
Figaro, Le 3, 59, 111
Fille Mal Gardée, La 31
Filosofov, Dmitry (Dima) 41, 44
Firebird, The see Oiseau de feu, L’
Fitzgerald, Zelda 6
FitzLyon, Kyril 204, 205, 210
Flanner, Janet 73f
Fokina, Vera 59f, 172, 174
Fokine, Mikhail
L’Aprèsmidi d’un faune 103
ballet 34
Ballets Russes 84, 151, 152, 165, 241
Bloody Sunday riots 24
and Bronia 172
Carnaval 75, 77
Chopiniana 45
choreography 26–7, 94, 130, 242, 254–5, 256
Cléopatra 59
Daphnis et Chloé 108
and Diaghilev 81, 99–100, 102, 108–9, 117, 243
and Duncan 23
Islamic miniatures 61
and Karsavina 66, 84f
La Légende de Joseph 178
L’Oiseau de feu 74
Paris 55, 56, 58, 59f, 76–7
Le Pavillon d’Armide 38–9, 48
Petrushka 90–1, 92, 93, 94
Polvtsian dances 77
Prince Igor 56
Le Sacre du printemps 129
Le Spectre de la rose 86–7
and Stravinsky 90
Les Sylphides 58
United States tour 184
and Vaslav 21, 27, 103–4, 244, 263n
Vaslav and Lvov 36
Fonteyn, Margot 230
Forefathers, The (Roerich) 127
Franny and Zooey (Salinger) 206
Frenkel, Hans 201, 212, 219, 226
Freud, Sigmund 181, 186, 229, 246, 249, 250, 251
Friends of St Stephen’s 150
Futurism 124
Fyodorova, Anna 165–6
Fyodorova, Olga 68, 165
Fyodor
ovna, Maria 82
G
Garafola, Lynn 26, 241
Gardel, Maximilien 17
Garibaldi, Giuseppe 156
Gauguin, Paul 131, 170
Gauthier-Villars, Henri 59
Gautier, Théophile 85
George V 96
Gerdt, Pavel 17, 20
Gillert, Stanislav 14
Gippius, Zinaida 44, 247
Giselle 75–6, 79, 80, 82–3, 104, 250
Giuri, Maria 11
Glinka, Mikhail 22
Gogol, Nikolay 43, 210
Golosov, S. P. 127
Goncharova, Natalia 216
Good-humoured ladies, The 141f, 191, 243
Gopal, Ram 234
Gorodetsky, Sergey 127
Gorshkova, Maria 32–3
Gosling, Nigel 94
Goya, Francisco 223
Grant, Marta 199, 200
Greene, Evie 176
Greffulhe, Comtesse de 53–4, 61, 182, 183
Grigoriev, Sergey
Ballets Russes 55, 56, 59f, 61, 63, 117, 167
and Bronia 172
and Diaghilev 117, 167
and Fokine 55, 104, 108, 109
Jeux 122, 123
and Lifar 227
Le Sacre du Printemps 132f, 144
and Sokolova 214
and Stravinsky 103
United States tour 184
and Vaslav 104, 119, 130
Vaslav’s dismissal 166, 168, 169, 178f, 191
Gris, Juan 215f
Gross, Valentine 123
Guest, Ann Hutchinson 103
Gunsbourg, Raoul 71
Günzburg, Baron Dmitry de
Ballets Russes 54, 71, 151
and Bronia 172
and Fokine 151
and Romola 147, 162
on SS Avon 156, 157
Vaslav’s dismissal 167
Vaslav’s marriage 158, 159, 160, 166
H
Hahn, Reynaldo 61, 125, 170
Hari, Mata 54
Haskell, Arnold 163, 164, 228, 233–4, 241, 244, 249, 257, 284n
Heilpern, John 229
Herodotus 127
Hodson, Millicent 117, 217f
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von 124, 125
Homans, Jennifer 110
I
Imperial Theatre School 13, 14–22, 23, 25, 29–34
Imperial Theatres 24–5, 48
Diaghilev 45
Karsavina 82
Vaslav 45–6
Vaslav’s dismissal 82–4
see also Alexandrinsky Theatre; Mariinsky Theatre; Mikhailovsky Theatre
Impressions de Music Hall 217f
J
Jackson and Johnson 9
James, Henry 96
Janin, Jules 48
Jeanès, Sigismond 149
Jeux 115–17, 120, 173, 243, 256
Bronia 216, 217
Diaghilev 151, 166, 243
Rambert 121
reaction 3, 122–4, 249–50
Jockey Club 58f
Johansson, Christian 17
Jones, Robert Edmond 184–5, 187, 250
Joseph see Légende de Joseph, La
Joyce, James 210
Jung, Carl 229
K
Kahn, Otto 182, 183, 184
Karsavin, Platon 20
Karsavina, Tamara
and Aga Khan 105–6
Ballets Russes 227
Bloody Sunday riots 24
and Cecchetti 147–8
at charity gala 230
and Diaghilev 39, 40, 43–4, 55, 84, 98, 217
and Duncan 47–8
and Madame Ephrussi 68, 69
and Fokine 66, 84f
Giselle 82
Imperial Theatre School 20
Imperial Theatres 25, 82
and Kshesinskaya 31, 81
marriage 66, 121
L’Oiseau de feu 74, 103
Paris 52, 55, 56, 57–8, 59f, 67, 68, 69
and Pavlova 32
Petrushka 90, 92, 93
and Roerich 126
and Romola 147, 240
Le Sacre du printemps 133
Sargent 96
Le Spectre de la rose 85, 86, 87
Thamar 109
United States tour 184
and Vaslav 17, 30–1, 120, 121–2, 253, 256
Vaslav’s funeral 234
Vaslav’s marriage 160, 161
Vaslav’s mental illness 223, 233
Kessler, Count Harry 117
La Légende de Joseph 125, 178
Le Sacre du printemps 142, 144, 145, 281n
Vaslav and Diaghilev 97, 178, 182
Vaslav’s mental illness 223–4
Keynes, John Maynard 115, 220
King, Hetty 176
Kirstein, Lincoln 12, 227–8, 244, 249, 253, 258–9
Kochetovsky, Alexander (Sasha) 118, 136, 171, 172, 173
Kochetovsky, Leo 218
Kochno, Boris 215, 222, 224, 225, 227
Koestonbaum, Wayne 245–6
Korda, Alexander 233
Kostrovsky, Dmitry 186, 190, 193
Kovaleska, Josefina 105–6, 157, 158–9
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von 43
Kreuzlingen 218, 226, 229–31
Kropotkin, Pyotr 24
Kshesinskaya, Mathilde 14, 19, 20, 22, 26, 27, 31, 217f
Ballets Russes 104
and Diaghilev 45, 53, 71, 80–1, 104
and Duncan 14, 23
Mariinsky Theatre 76
Paris 48, 59
Le Talisman 92
and Vaslav 31, 45
Vaslav’s funeral 234
Kuzmin, Mikhail 44, 47, 97
L
Laing, Ronald 220
Laloy, Louis 129, 149
Larionov, Mikhail 101
Larue’s 56, 66, 67, 125
Laurencin, Marie 215f
Legat, Nadine 253
Legat, Nikolay 21–2, 46, 76
Legat, Sergey 14, 17, 24–5
Légende de Joseph, La 125, 151, 177–8
Levitan, Isaac 40
Li Cunxin 170
Lieven, Prince Peter 19, 20, 74f
Lifar, Leonid 230, 231
Lifar, Serge
appearance 72
L’Aprèsmidi d’un faune 100, 222
Ballets Russes 241
and Diaghilev 79, 80f, 96, 222
Diaghilev’s death 225
and Grigoriev 227
Paris Opéra 227
and Pavlova 32
and Romola 228
Russian spring 128
Le Sacre du printemps 130
and Vaslav 222, 223, 224, 230–1, 233, 243
Vaslav’s funerals 234
Vaslav’s grave 234, 240, 243
Life for the Tsar, A 22
Liszt, Franz 54, 182
Lloyd George, David 206
London 95–6, 104, 113–15, 145, 147–9, 150, 189, 213
Drury Lane Theatre 178
Opera House 95
Palace Theatre 172–6, 285n
The Sleeping Princess 215–16
Vaslav’s funeral 234
Lopokov, Fyodor 20
Lopokova, Lydia 20, 115, 190, 227
and Cecchetti 36
and Diaghilev 61
Les Femmes de bonne humeur 141f
Paris 52
and Pavlova 32, 252
Petrushka 94
and Vaslav 186, 220, 233, 250
Louÿs, Pierre 249
Lugano 117
Lvov, Prince Pavel 60
and Diaghilev 47, 51, 267n
and Vaslav 34–8, 45–6, 47, 51, 68, 265n, 267n
Lyman, Miss D. 228
M
Madrid 191, 192–4
Mallarmé, Stéphane 54, 81, 100–1, 110, 111
Mamontov, Savva 41
Mariinsky Theatre 13–14, 16, 19, 76, 80–1
Duncan 23
Fokine 26–8
Legat’s suicide 24–5
Vaslav 2
7–8, 31
Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso 124
Markevitch, Igor 224, 229, 241
Markevitch, Vaslav 229, 241
Márkus, Emilia 105, 156, 175, 223, 231
and Diaghilev 145
at Kreuzlingen 229
Romola’s marriage 159, 180, 181
and Vaslav 181
in Vaslav’s diary 209
Massine, Léonide 20, 227, 241
as choreographer 194
and Diaghilev 43, 70–1, 96, 167, 177–8, 191–2, 214–15, 244
Les Femmes de bonne humeur 191, 243
La Légende de Joseph 177–8
Le Sacre du printemps 214
and Savina 214–15
Le Tricorne 213
United States tour 183, 184
and Vaslav 113, 193, 243, 253
in Vaslav’s diary 210
Matin, Le 111
Matisse, Henri 60
Maupassant, Guy de 210
Mavra 216
Mavrin, Aleksey 44, 50, 68, 165, 178
Melba, Nellie 95
Mephisto Valse 182, 184, 187, 188
Merezhkovsky, Dmitry 44
Meyerhold, Vsevolod 100, 274n
Mikhailovsky Theatre 19
Milan 117
Milhaud, Darius 195, 215f
Miller, Professor Josh 221f
Mir iskusstva 41–2, 44, 46
Misler, Nicoletta 127
Monaco 145
Monte Carlo 85–6, 105–6, 118, 120, 121–2
Monteux, Pierre 108, 241
Jeux 123
New York 186
Petrushka 91
Le Sacre du printemps 128–9, 138, 140–1, 142, 148, 176
Le Spectre de la rose 87
Till Eulenspiegel 187
Montevideo 196–7
Morrell, Lady Ottoline 117, 170, 213
and Chaplin 189
and Romola 179
Le Sacre du printemps 148
and Vaslav 115, 131, 179, 189, 220, 227, 230
Morrell, Philip 230
Mukhin, Vasily 66
Munnings, Hilda see Sokolova, Lydia
Murphy, Gerald 216f
Murphy, Sara 216f
N
Nabokov, Nicolas 247
Narcisse 108
Neumeier, John 124
New York 182–5, 186
Nicholas II 14, 53
Nietzsche, Friedrich 201, 210
Nijinska, Bronislava (Bronia) 217–18f, 247
Acis and Galatea 28
L’Aprèsmidi d’un faune 101–2, 109, 222
birth 7, 8
Carnaval 75
childhood 8, 9, 10, 11, 13
choreography 216–17
circus 12
dance training 9
and Diaghilev 39, 97, 135, 151–2, 171–2
and Duncan 47
and father 30, 119
first nights 1
Giselle 75
Imperial Theatre School 14–15, 21, 29
Imperial Theatres 84
Jeux 122
and Kyra 226
letter to Switzerland 199