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Soon after his arrival, he began performing with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo under the directorship of Léonide Massine. In February 1940, Kostenko married ballerina Maria Dmitrievna Korjinska (1912–1994), a native Muscovite of Yugoslavian descent, while the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was touring the American West Coast.