Russian ballet in Legat’s cartoons (album of publishing house «progress», St. Petersburg, 1902-1905)

Abstract

The article is devoted album chromolithographs of brothers S.G. and N. G. Legat «Russian Ballet is in caricatures» published in the 1902-1905 biennium. St. Petersburg publisher N. A. Sokolov «Progress». Brothers Sergei and Nikolai Legat, outstanding dancers and choreographers, musically gifted, had an extraordinary artistic ability, participated in exhibitions of the Imperial Society of Russian watercolors. Vividly beautiful gift brothers manifested itself in the creation of the famous series of figures on the Russian ballet. The article summarizes the history of its creation, to clarify their genre species, the reasons for the treatment of brothers Legat’s caricatures. We analyze the plot and thematic plan caricatures of their artistic and stylistic features, feature figurative language authors. The conclusions emphasized that the appeal to the brothers Legat personalized caricatures in the early XX century was due not only to the specifics of the theatrical medium or personal characteristics of the authors, but also with the general tendencies of Russian culture of the era.