biography
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de Basil, Colonel Wassili
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originally Vasily Grigorievich Voskresensky
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pronunciation:
[duh bazil, vasile
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| male
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| lived:
| (1881–1951)
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| biography:
| Ballet impresario, personality, and publicist, born in Kaunas, C Lithuania. Originally an army officer, he began his theatrical career in Paris as assistant to Prince Zeretelli, director of an itinerant Russian opera company. In 1932 he and René Blum co-founded the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, heir to Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The company gained considerable international acclaim with its high calibre dancers. |
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