We have accompanied Bakst up to his last station. It is time, therefore, for this sketch to end. The writer takes leave of his readers and descends into the audience in order with his readers to await the rising of the curtain for the next act of the most beautiful of plays: the life of a grand and noble artist.
CONTENTS
TEXT
| The Story of Leon Bakst’s Life. Preface | [13] |
| The Yellow Drawing Room | [15] |
| The Ungrateful Age | [18] |
| The Two Sphinxes | [32] |
| A Wrong Start | [40] |
| The Club | [48] |
| Mir Iskousstva | [56] |
| The Three Knocks | [77] |
| The Theban Gate | [89] |
| Terror Antiquus | [107] |
| The Spiral Road | [110] |
| A Show in an Armchair | [132] |
| Epilogue. Bakst and Russia | [217] |