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Vaslav

was born in Kiev, Ukraine to a Polish dancer's family of Eleonora Bereda and Tomasz

was christened in Warsaw. In 1900 he joined the Imperial Ballet School, where he studied under Enrico Cecchetti, Nicholas Legat, and Pavel Gerdt. At 18 years old he was given a string of leads. In 1910, the company's Prima ballerina assoluta Mathilde Kschessinskaya selected

to dance in a revival of Marius Petipa's Le Talisman, during which

created a sensation in the role of the Wind God Vayou.
A turning point for

was his meeting Sergei Diaghilev, a member of the St. Petersburg elite and a wealthy patron of the arts, promoting Russian visual and musical art abroad, particularly in Paris.
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