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The novel is dedicated to the life and work of the legendary Ukrainian dancer and choreographer Serhiy Lifar, who, by virtue of his talent, became one of the most prominent artists of world culture of the twentieth century. Drawing on documentary sources and biographical data, the author vividly and truthfully depicts an entire era of the development of the choreographic art of Europe associated with the name of the great Ukrainian who was destined to stand at the origins of the modern revival of French ballet in the last century. The Kyiv of the first quarter and middle of the twentieth century, as well as the theatrical, choreographic and artistic life of France at that time, are presented, which is vividly reflected in the creative path of Sergei Lifar and received its dynamic development in unity with such prominent figures as Sergei Diaghilev, such as Sergei Diaghilev, Mikhail Fokin, Enrico Cecchetti, Matilda Kshesinska, Anna Pavlova, Olga Spesivtseva, Tamara Karsavina, Wenceslas and Bronislawa Nijinsky, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, Alexandre Benois, Coco Chanel, George Balanchine...