Шут

1887–1926 · Local de trabalho

Saint Petersburg

1905–1907 · Local de trabalho

Paris

1905–1907

Second trip to France

During his second trip to France he prepares the publications “The Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III” and “The Russian School of Painting”, works with the magazine Golden Fleece, prints his “Parisian Notes” in the newspaper Slovo and takes part in exhibitions in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Paris and Berlin. Other accounts say he moved to Paris in 1905 and from then on devoted himself chiefly to stage design.

1906

The “Russian Art Exhibition” in Paris

Following the Tauride exhibition of 1905, he organizes the “Russian Art Exhibition” in Paris together with Diaghilev and Bakst — an undertaking from which the theatrical Russian Seasons abroad will grow.

1908–1911

Artistic director of the Russian Seasons

Becomes artistic director of Sergei Diaghilev's Russian Seasons, which made Russian ballet famous abroad; under his direction Konstantin Korovin, Nicholas Roerich, Bakst and Alexander Golovin work in the theatre.

19 May 1909

“The Pavilion of Armida” opens the Russian Seasons

The ballet “The Pavilion of Armida” opens the first Russian Seasons in Paris.