Раздел 2. Чтение

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On 21^st August 1929 a funeral barge set off for the little island of San Michele, where the city of Venice (A)_________ the beginning of the 19^th century. The body on the barge, bound for the Greek Orthodox section of the cemetery, was that of Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev, founder and leader of the Ballets Russes and one of the most influential pioneers of modern art in the twentieth century.

In the course of a twenty three year career Diaghilev (B)_________  Americas. In this relatively short space of time he transformed the world of dance, theatre, music and the visual arts as no one (C)_________ (or has done since).

From 1896 he was active in Russia as a critic, exhibition organiser, publisher and art historian. Through his journal Mir Iskusstva and exhibitions he brought Russian art out of years of stagnation. He championed international symbolism, art nouveau, the Arts and Crafts Movement and Russian neo nationalism. He managed (D)_________ artistic past.

He set up a travelling, privately financed ballet troupe that performed in Europe’s and America’s most famous theatres, and for nearly quarter of a century it E dance company. Its early productions fed the craze for the Slavic and oriental exoticism, catapulting the Ballet Russes to instant fame. He was a central figure (F)_________ of Paris, London, Rome, Berlin and Madrid during the golden age of modern art. He lived through bankruptcy, war, revolution and exile.

1. had ever done before
2. would be the world’s leading
3. in the artistic worlds
4. to revive forgotten aspects of Russia’s
5. had made his mark in Europe and the
6. was named after Diaghilev
7. has buried its dead since