Local historian and journalist V.F. Gladyshev combined cartoons into a kind of gallery, accompanied by detailed comments. Such an exhibition was organized by him and successfully worked in the museum of S.P. Diaghilev. Now its "visitor" will be the reader. In the book Diaghilev appears in a new light. This is the story of how he sought an antidote to inertia and vulgarity. This is the story of how Diaghilev became an involuntarily emigrant. He had Napoleonic plans in Russia, in the end he won, but for this he had to repeat Kutuzov's maneuver - to leave the capital, turning all of Europe into a battlefield for Russian art.