Acting · Visual art
Sergei Diaghilev
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Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.
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Mariinsky Theatre
In 1899 Prince Serge Wolkonsky appointed him to special duties at the Imperial Theatres; he edited the Imperial Theatres Yearbook and worked inside the Mariinsky system before launching the Ballets Russes.
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Tauride Palace
Organized the landmark Exhibition of Historic Russian Portraits at the Tauride Palace in 1905 — a defining Mir iskusstva project before his Paris seasons.
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