Around Moscow
MOSCOW. (Anatoly Korolyov, member of the...
Russian - from dances to feather hats - became fashionable. Fashion-conscious women on the Champs Elysees dressed like Ida Rubinstein and fashion-conscious men wore monocles like the maestro Diaghilev. The prices of sapphires spiked when it became known that Nijinsky collected them.In short, the epicenter of European culture moved to St Petersburg in 1909, and the wave of Russian Art Nouveau created a constellation of names and phenomenal manifestations in music, painting, ballet, poetry and literature. The Revolution of 1917 intensified the supremacy of the Soviet radicals, and it was in Russia that Constructivism, Abstractionism and Suprematism were born and it was Russians who shared the glory of founding Futurism with the Italians.
And only the reincarnation of a free country into a Stalinist dictatorship stopped this wave of flowering and Russia became the world"s cultural wasteland for many years. And after all, Paris has long since been
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