A book tells about the short, but saturated period of life of Sergey Дягилева and his artists in the First world war-time in Switzerland, ashore the Genevan lake, in Lausanne and Монтре. Exactly in neutral Switzerland a "aesthetic revolutionary", as named Дягилева at that time, suffering from inactivity and absence of prospects, suddenly found a new aim - to collect the artists on all Europe, reviving most powerful and wonderful gamble of contemporaneity of "Дягилевские Russian ballets" for guest performances in America. A book is provided with plenty of photos, including first published in Russia.