Alexandre Benois, Russian painter and critic (born 1870)

Alexandre Benois

Russian painter (1870–1960)

Alexandre (Alexander) Nikolayevich Benois was a Russian artist, art critic, historian, preservationist and founding member of Mir iskusstva, an art movement and magazine. As a designer for the Ballets Russes under Sergei Diaghilev, Benois exerted what is considered a seminal…