Nijinsky

by V. Krasovskaia and Vere Krasovskaya

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0028718704
• ISBN13: 9780028718705
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Schirmer G Books
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Captures Nijinsky the Person

This book, more than any other, captures Nijinsky the person, especially in the context of Nijinsky and his colleagues in the Imperial Theatre of St. Petersburg in the early part of this century. The late Professor Krasovskaya has succeeded in illuminating the atmosphere of ballet in St. Petersburg in those times. Especially moving is her depiction of Maria Piltz, the first Chosen Virgin of Nijinsky's Rite of Spring, as an old lady recalling the extraordinary premiere in Paris.This is one of three remarkable books about Nijinsky. The others being Bronislava Nijinska's Early Memoirs, and Richard Buckle's Nijinsky, though Buckle scorned [in London's Sunday Times] Krasovskaya's work when it first appeared in translation. Read Nijinska for what it was like to be Nijinsky's sister, read Buckle for the teeming social and financial gymnastics Diaghilev performed in order to present russian art in western europe, and read Krasovskaya for Nijinsky the person.