![]() ![]() ![]() Politics as much as art absorbed the emigres.Īctivists sought to overthrow the Bolshevik regime from afar, while double agents plotted espionage and assassination from both sides. Nijinsky, Diaghilev, Bunin, Chagall, and Stravinsky joined Picasso, Hemingway, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein in the creative crucible of the annees folles. Talented intellectuals, artists, poets, philosophers, and writers eked out a living at menial jobs, while others found great success. There, former princes could be seen driving taxicabs, while their wives found work in the fashion houses, where their unique Russian style inspired designers such as Coco Chanel. Paris was no longer an amusement, but a refuge. Leaving with only the clothes on their backs, many came to France’s glittering capital. From the time of Peter the Great, Paris was the playground of the Tsarist aristocracy.īut the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917 forced Russians of all types to flee their homeland. ![]()
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