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==Biography==
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{{newreview
|author=Sjeng Scheijen
|title=Diaghilev: A Life
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Sergey Diaghilev was one of the towering figures in the artistic world of Russia, and indeed Europe, at the start of the 20th century. Born in 1872 the ambitious son of a bankrupt vodka producer from Perm, and a mother who died a few days later probably from puerperal fever, by his early twenties he was on close terms with such names as Tolstoy, Zola, Tchaikovsky and Brahms. He worked his way into the ranks of the cultural cognoscenti at St Petersburg and launched the itinerant troupe which would become the Ballets Russes, playing to packed houses as far west as Britain and the United States.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681642</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=David Howarth