Ближний Восток и его соседи

g 131 h Diaghilev’s Scheherazade and Russian Orientalism Keywords: Orientalism, Ballets Russes, Sergei Diaghilev, Léon Bakst, Vaslav Nijinsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Barrie Kosky, Farah Diba, Üzeyir Hacıb ə yov, Kees van Dongen, Paul Poiret, 1001 Nights, Özsoy, Antar, Sche- herazade, Fikret Amirov, Valentin Serov, Ida Rubinshtein, Osip Senkovsky, Aleksey Miroshnichenko. *** This paper 3 will use the materials related to the Russian and Soviet Orienta­ list ballets and operas with the focus on Scheherazade , which became one of the main highlights of Diaghilev’s whole project of the Ballets Russes , or the Russian Seasons . It aims at showing the different representations and percep- tion thereof not only in pre-revolutionary Russia but in the Soviet Union and in Europe. 3 This paper is based on my previous publication on a similar subject: Melville F. I. Russian Orientalist ballet and non-Russian national opera: From Diaghilev to Miroshnichenko // Endless Inspiration: One Thousand and One Nights in comparative perspective. Ed. by Orhan Elmaz. Gor- gias Press, 2020. P. 323–344. Pl. 3. Poster of the Scheherezade performance in the Covent Garden, 14 November 1911