Walter Feodorovich Nouvel () (1871–1949) was a Russian émigré art-lover and writer.
Career
He co-wrote with Arnold Haskell a biography of
Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev (''Diaghileff. His Artistic and Private life''), and was the ghost-writer of
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ( – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential 20th-century c ...
's autobiography ''Chronique de ma Vie (Chronicle of my life)''.
Nouvel fled the Soviet Union in 1919 and worked as secretary and factotum for Diaghilev's
Ballets Russes
The Ballets Russes () was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America. The company never performed in Russia, where the Russian Revolution, Revolution ...
.
Literature: Zil'bershtein, I.S. and V.A. Samkov, eds. Sergei Diagilev i russkoe iskusstvo, 2.vols. Moscow: Iskusstvo 1982. vol. 2, pp. 342–343.
References
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1871 births
1949 deaths
Writers from the Russian Empire
White Russian emigrants to France