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born May 4, 1870, St. Petersburg, Russia
died Feb. 9, 1960, Paris, Fr.
Russian theatre art director, painter, and influential ballet set designer.
With Sergey Diaghilev he cofounded the avant-garde art magazine Mir Iskusstva ("World of Art") in 1899. He began his scenic-design career in 1901 and designed many of the innovative Ballets Russes decors from 1909 to 1929. He designed sets for numerous other ballet companies in the 1940s and 1950s.