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Diaghilev's Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World by Rupert Christiansen xmas24contemporarylit Georgia is probably the finestIn Diaghilev's Empire, Christiansen paints a vivid portrait of Serge Diaghilev an art connoisseur with no dance training who nonetheless assembled a constellation of talent. With artists like Vaslav Nijinsky, Anna Pavlova, Igor Stravinsky and Pablo Picasso, he transformed ballet into a bold, modern art collage that reshaped European culture. Such was the credo of the ruthlessly manipulative and resourceful Serge Diaghilev the Russian impresario who