Walter Nouvel

Who was Walter Nouvel?

Walter Feodorovich Nouvel was a Russian émigré art-lover and writer. He co-wrote with Arnold Haskell a biography of Sergei Pavlovitch Diaghilev, and was the ghost-writer of Igor Stravinsky's autobiography Chronique de ma Vie. Nouvel fled the Soviet Union in 1919 and worked as secretary and factotum for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.

Literature: Zil'bershtein, I.S. and V.A. Samkov, eds. Sergei Diagilev i russkoe iskusstvo, 2.vols. Moscow: Iskusstvo 1982. vol. 2, p.342-343