Ballets russes

Ballets russes was a company dedicated to the propagation of Russian ballet; it grew out of an exhibition of Russian painting and sculpture that Serge Diaghilev organized for the Paris Salon d’Automne of 1906. This 1906 affair was so successful that the gifted entrepreneur undertook a second project of a similar nature, although he devoted this second season in Paris during 1908 to Russian music and the accomplishments of such musicians and composers as Piotr Tchaikovsky , Nikolay…