From Diaghilev and the Ballet Russe by Boris Kochno: A romantic reverie in one act by Michel Fokine. Music by Frédéric Chopin, seven piano pieces orchestrated for the Ballets Russes production by Sergei Taneyev, Anatole Liadov, Alexander Glazounov, Nicholas. Tcher-epnine, and Igor Stravinsky. Choreography by Michel Fokine. Décor and costumes by Alexandre Benois. (In 1917, a new set by Carlo Sokrate replaced the Benois décor.) First performance by the Ballets Russes: Théâtre

Who was Anatole Oboukhoff? Anatole Oboukhoff was born in St. Petersburg in 1896. He studied at the Imperial Ballet School and went on to...