Sergey Yurievich Sudeikin, also known as Serge Soudeikine (19 March 1882 in Smolensk – 12 August 1946 in Nyack, New York), was a Russian artist and set-designer associated with the

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and the Metropolitan Opera.

Biography

Having been banned from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture for his "obscene drawings", Sudeikin joined the Mir Iskusstva movement. His close friends included the poet Mikhail Kuzmin and the impresario

Serge Diaghilev Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev ( ; rus, Серге́й Па́влович Дя́гилев, , sʲɪˈrɡʲej ˈpavləvʲɪdʑ ˈdʲæɡʲɪlʲɪf; 19 August 1929), usually referred to outside Russia as Serge Diaghilev, was a Russian art critic, pat ...

, at whose invitation he came to Paris in 1906 for the Salon d'Automne Exhibition, where his work was first shown abroad. From 1907 to 1918 he was married to actress

Olga Glebova Olga may refer to: People and fictional characters * Olga (name), a given name, including a list of people and fictional characters named Olga or Olha * Michael Algar (born 1962), English singer also known as "Olga" Places Russia * Olga, Russia, ...

(1885–1945), one of the famed beauties of

St Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

and the closest friend of Anna Akhmatova. Glebova-Sudeikina is the principal character and addressee of Akhmatova's longest work, ''The Poem Without Hero'' (1940–65). Sudeikin designed the sets and costumes for Diaghilev's production of ''La tragédie de Salomé'' by Florent Schmitt in 1913, and assisted in the execution of Nicholas Roerich's designs for

Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (6 April 1971) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, later of French (from 1934) and American (from 1945) citizenship. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential 20th-century clas ...

's '' The Rite of Spring'' the same year. By the time of the October Revolution Sudeikin was among the foremost theatrical designers in Russia. In 1913 he had eloped to Paris with the dancer Vera de Bosset, whom he subsequently married, and who in the 1920s left him to become the mistress and ultimately second wife of Stravinsky. Sudeikin 1

In 1926 he prepared artwork for the 1926 Broadway production of Nikolai Evreinov's ''The Chief Thing''. Soudeikine later designed the settings for the original Theatre Guild production of '' Porgy and Bess'' that first opened on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre in New York City on October 10, 1935.

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Sergei Soudeikine set designs for cinema, 1938-1939
held by the Billy Rose Theatre Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts {{DEFAULTSORT:Sudeikin, Serge 20th-century Russian painters Russian male painters Modern artists 1882 births 1946 deaths American people of Russian descent White Russian emigrants to the United States Bisexual artists Russian LGBT artists 20th-century Russian male artists Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni