
Daria Khristova nee Chernenko
Department Director
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Leon Bakst was the most influential costume designer of his generation. In 1898, he founded with Sergei Diaghilev and Alexandre Benois the Mir Iskusstva [World of Art] group. His work on Josef Bayer's ballet Feya kukol at the Hermitage Theater in St. Petersburg helped establish Bakst as a major costume designer in 1903, and he first contributed to Diaghilev's legendary Ballets Russes in 1909. Benois called the designs for Feya kukol Bakst's indisputable masterpiece.