As a law student in St. Petersburg, this man became interested in the arts, & in 1909 he founded the Ballets Russes
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became the ballet master at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, and made .... 
heights, re-established its prestige as a major art form (Karlinsky 24).