Konstruktsioon

1914

Designs “The Golden Cockerel” for Diaghilev

On Alexandre Benois's recommendation Diaghilev invited Goncharova to design the opera-ballet “The Golden Cockerel”; after its first performances in Paris and London succeeded, their collaboration continued.

spring 1914

The Synod seizes 22 paintings in St Petersburg

By sanction of the Chief Procurator of the Synod, 22 paintings were removed from her solo show at Nadezhda Dobychina's Art Bureau, although a church censor had cleared them in advance; Count I. I. Tolstoy, Baron Nikolai Wrangel and Mstislav Dobuzhinsky came to her defence, and the paintings were returned.

1914

Back to Russia as war breaks out

With the outbreak of the First World War, Goncharova and Larionov returned to Russia.

29 April 1914

To Paris with Larionov

Together with Larionov, Goncharova left Russia for Paris.

June 1915

Leaves Russia for the Ballets Russes

Diaghilev invited Goncharova and Larionov to work permanently for his Ballets Russes, and they left Russia, settling first in Switzerland. She felt the parting from her homeland keenly, as she wrote to the poet Sergei Bobrov.

1915–1962 · Residence

Paris