Bronia entered the school two years after Vaslav. He arranged for the noted teacher Enrico Cecchetti to sponsor the application. She persuaded a friend from the Wielki Theatre, Victor Stanislas Gillert, who was at the time teaching at the Imperial Ballet School, to help get Vaslav into the school. Eleanora moved to 20 Mokhovaya Street in St Petersburg with her children. In 1897 Thomas and Eleanora separated after Thomas had fallen in love with another dancer, Rumiantseva, while touring in Finland. He and his family became itinerant dancers, the children appearing in the Christmas show at Nizhny Novgorod.
Thomas attempted to run his own company, but was not successful. Īfter Josef Setov died about 1894, the company disbanded. Both boys received training from their father and appeared in an amateur Hopak production in Odessa in 1894. She suffered from depression, which may have been a genetic vulnerability shared in a different form by her son Vaslav. 29 December 1886 in Tiflis) and Vaslav and daughter Bronislava ('Bronia', b.
Eleanora continued to tour and dance while having three children, sons Stanislav (b. Tomasz was premier danseur, and Eleanora a soloist. The two met, married in May 1884 and settled into a career with the traveling Setov opera company. At age 18 he accepted a soloist contract with the Odessa Theatre. Tomasz Niżyński also attended the Wielki Theatre school, becoming a soloist there. In 1868 her talent was spotted and she moved to Kiev as a solo dancer. She started to earn a living as an extra in Warsaw's Grand Theatre Ballet (Polish: Teatr Wielki), becoming a full member of the company at age thirteen. For the next 30 years he was in and out of institutions, never dancing in public again.Įleanora, along with her two brothers and two sisters, was orphaned while still a child. His mental condition deteriorated he was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1919 and committed to a mental asylum. After a tour of South America in 1917, and due to travel difficulties imposed by the war, the family settled in St. Nijinsky became increasingly mentally unstable with the stresses of having to manage tours himself and deprived of opportunities to dance. Calls for his release had been made by Alfonso XIII of Spain and President Wilson at the urging of Otto Kahn. He was finally permitted to leave after intervention by Diaghilev and international leaders he was allowed to go to New York for an American tour. He was interned in Budapest, Hungary during World War I, under house arrest until 1916. With no alternative employer available, Nijinsky tried to form his own company, but this was not a success.
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