Лев Бакст, портрет художника в образе еврея. Опыт интеллектуальной биографии

How to write a biography of an artist who left a lot of texts that obviously form his posthumous image? How true is this image? Olga Medvedkova offers to look at the personality and life of Lev Bakst from the perspective of microhistory and for the first time reconstructs his intellectual biography based on archival sources and ego-documents. The subject of her research is the gap between reality and dream, facts and story about them, where the identity of the artist is manifested in all its complexity. The key to understanding Bakst's myth about himself is the Jewish theme, inextricably linked with the theme of turning to ancient Greek archaism and the idea of ​​a new Renaissance. Olga Medvedkova is a historian of art and architecture, Doctor of Sciences, senior researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research of France, author of books and articles on the history of European architecture of the New Age and the problems of Russian art.