As my interest towards Ballets Russes grew, I began wondering what the sketchbook of Alexandre Benois might have looked like. Would its pages be filled with quick sketches of Diaghilev managing his company, Nijinsky dancing across the rehearsal room, and Stravinsky focused in his compositions? Benois himself would be nowhere on these sketches, of course, but I liked the thought that we might come to know him through the people he chose to draw.