Emigre Collection

The Free Russian Library and reading room, 15 Whitechapel Road, Stepney, London, c1901 (1901). The Free Russian Library was set up by Aleksei Teplov

Ballets Russes in Seville, Spain, 1916. The Ballets Russes was a famous itinerant ballet company founded by Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) in Paris in 1909

Alice Nikitina and Serge Lifar, Russian ballet dancers, 1924. Nikitina (1904-1978) and Lifar (1905-1986) in the Ballets Russes production of Les Biches by Francis Poulenc. From a private collection

Erich Maria Remarque, German author, late 1920s. Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) was the author of the anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Nikolay Ivanovich Turgenev, Russian author, c1860-c1864
Nikolay Ivanovich Turgenev, Russian economist and political theorist, c1860-c1864. A relative of the novelist Ivan Turgenev

Vladimir Nabokov, Russian author, 20th century. Nabokov (1899-1977) was a novelist and short story writer. He left Russia after the victory of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War

Leon Bakst, Russian artist and designer, 1910s. Bakst (1866-1924) is best known for the costume and set designs he produced for Serge Diaghilevs famous itinerant ballet company, the Ballets Russes

Leon Bakst, Russian artist and designer and ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev, c1910. Bakst (1866-1924) (left) and Diaghilev (1872-1929) (centre) with unidentified others

Mikhail Chekhov, Russian actor and author, 1928. The nephew of the playwright Anton Chekhov, Mikhail Chekhov (1891-1955) is regarded by many as one of the greatest actors of the 20th century

Ivan A Bunin, Russian author, c1937. Bunin (1870-1953) was a short story writer and novelist. He was not a supporter of the Bolsheviks and left Russia after the Revolution

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