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SERGE DIAGHILEV
(1872 - 1929)
IMPRESARIO
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VASLAV NIJINSKY
(1890 - 1950)
BALLET DANCER
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They
loved, quarreled and parted. Diaghilev wooed other male dancers.
Nijinsky,
seduced by ballerina Romda Morkus, married her, lost
fame
as a dancer and became mentally deranged.
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Postmarked
Oldenburg, 22 January 1984.
Sculpture
of Nijinsky, by Georg Kolbe.
Nijinsky
and Isadora Duncan modeled for
Antoine
Bourdelle's fresco 'The Dance.' |
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Copyright Louis Paul Hennefeld 1983 - 2004
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