Papers, 1904-1925, 1907-1914 (bulk).

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Papers, 1904-1925, 1907-1914 (bulk).

Correspondence including telegrams, copies of outgoing letters, and some typed transcripts of telegrams and letters, inventories, financial papers, notes and plans, clippings, programs, announcements, and drafts of contracts and reports relating primarily to the early activities of Sergei Diaghilev in bringing Russian ballet and opera to Western Europe. Between 1907 and 1913 Diaghilev collaborated with Astruc regarding the organization of his various artistic enterprises, including the Paris seasons of ballet and opera, negotiations for tours to the United States and South America, summer performances at Deauville in 1912, and a ballet season in Lyons in 1913. Documentation of the first Saison Russe presented by Diaghilev at the Théâtre du Chatelet in Paris in 1909 is particularly thorough and includes inventories of costumes and scenery for the works presented and a confidential report on the season which Astruc sent to Baron Frederiks, Chief Minister of the Russian Imperial Court. Astruc's dealings with Ida Rubinstein and Natasha Trouhanova regarding enterprises undertaken independent of Diaghilev are also documented.

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Ballets russes (Diaghilev)

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Martin, Jules.

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Günzburg, Dmitri, baron.

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Shidlovskiĭ, A. B.

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Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.

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Trouhanova, Natasha, 1885-

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Pavlova, Anna, 1881-1931

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Brussel, Robert

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Astruc, Gabriel, 1864-1938

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Mingardi, Vittorio

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Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich, 1873-1938

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Châtelet (Theater : Paris, France)

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Nijinsky, Vaslav, 1889-1950.

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Rubinstein, Ida

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Frederiks, Vladimir Borisovich, Baron, 1838-1927

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