Talk:Sergei Diaghilev

message: There are rumours about him having a relationship with Nijinsky. Can anyone confirm these? 81.131.191.198
This is well documented.   Nijinsky had already had a relationship with a Russian nobleman, to whom he was introduced by a pimp who was also a member of the corps de ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre.   It does not appear that he was wholeheartedly homosexual, but consented to homosexual acts for money in order to hep support his mother, sister and emotionally disturbed brother - the family's father had deserted the home.   In his memoirs, written after he had lost his mind, he admits that he 'went with' Diaghilev for money - but also says that he spent much of his time in Paris searching for good-looking prostitutes; and of course in due time he married.   Richard Buckle's biography Nijinsky (London, 1979) has much of this detail.
Derek Parker 06:06, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
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message: This article hasn't been touched in a while. I added more early information. I plan to add more about the Ballet Russes and art exhibitions later.--tufkaa 18:42, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
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message: This is not generally known.
The Tchaikovsky connection is as follows:  Diaghilev's mother died, and his father remarried, to Yelena Panayeva.  Her sister Alexandra Panayeva married Georgy Kartsov, who was Tchaikovsky's first cousin once removed, being the son of his first cousin Alexandra nee Tchaikovskaya and her husband Pavel Kartsov (my source, Sjeng Scheijen's "Diaghilev: A Life", p. 21, calls him Tchaikovsky's "nephew").  Thus, Diaghilev's step-mother (and biological mother of his two half-brothers) was the sister-in-law of Tchaikovsky's first cousin once removed.
The Stravinsky connection is as follows: Stravinsky's great-grandmother (his mother's mother's mother) was Elizaveta Engel, who married his great-grandfather Roman Fyodorovich Furman. Elizaveta's sister Anna Engel married a Litke, and died in childbirth giving birth to her 5th child, the future Admiral Litke. He was Diaghilev's great-grandfather.  Thus, Diaghilev and Stravinsky were 3rd cousins once removed.  My source: Stephen Walsh, Stravinsky: A Creative Spring: Russia and France, 1882-1934, excerpt
Thus, Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky were related to each other in a known way:
* Stravinsky was the 3rd cousin once removed of Tchaikovsky's 1st cousin once removed's sister-in-law's children's half-brother.  
I'm glad I worked that out.  --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 02:08, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
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message: The article about Serge Lifar says that  Lifar was condemned as a collaborator with the Nazis. Here it says He saved Jews. Usually, these two things didn't go together.Tushyk (talk) 11:52, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
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message: What a shabby article! Diaghilev surely deserved better... There are two great biographies of him: 
Diaghilev by Richard Buckle and Diaghilev: A Life by Sjeng Scheijen (besides several good companion ones about Nijinsky).—Ana Bruta (talk) 21:02, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: 8 years later, it's still not much better... Invisi-splat (talk) 19:48, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
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message: Diabetes is a chronic condition, rather than a fatal one: does anyone know what, specifically, caused his death? ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 18:26, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cause of death 

message: "Diaghilev was severely afraid of dying in water, and avoided traveling by boat. He died in Venice..." Anyone else think these two statements sit rather oddly next to each other? Per$1$tenceofv1$1on (talk) 20:20, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Death and Legacy"