Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev

Gellibrand (NH gives only her surname) was the daughter of a Russian mother and an English father who shipped timber for pit-props from the northern forests. Most of NH 's two months of...

Jane Howard's mother, Katharine M. Howard , née Somervell, the intellectual of her very musical family, had trained as a ballet dancer and had a brief career with Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes under the name...

Violet Keppel (later VT ) became acquainted, initially through her mother 's connections, with Diaghilev , Nijinsky , and Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina , as well as authors George Moore and Hugh Walpole .

By the age of sixteen, UT had begun receiving commissions for her sculptures and had rented a studio of her own in which to exhibit her works. The money she earned from these commissions gave...