Other dancers said he would shoot them down with one look, or a cold comment. On the other hand, he was capable of great kindness, and when stranded with his bankrupt company in Spain during the 1914–18 war, gave his last bit of cash to Lydia Sokolova to buy medical care for her daughter. Alicia Markova was very young when she joined the Ballets Russes and would later say that she had called Diaghilev "Sergypops", and that he had said he would take care of her like a daughter. Dancers such as Alicia Markova, Tamara Karsavina, Serge Lifar, and Lydia Sokolova remembered Diaghilev fondly as a stern but kind father-figure who put the needs of his dancers and company above his own. He lived from paycheck to paycheck to finance his company, and though he spent considerable amounts of money on a splendid collection of rare books at the end of his life, many people noticed that his impeccably cut suits had frayed cuffs and trouser-ends. The 1948 film The Red Shoes is a thinly disguised dramatization of the Ballets Russes. Death and legacy Throughout his life, Diaghilev was severely afraid of dying in water, and avoided traveling by boat. He died of diabetes in Venice on 19 August 1929, and his tomb is on the nearby island of San Michele, near to the grave of Stravinsky, in the Orthodox section. The Ekstrom Collection of the Diaghilev and Stravinsky Foundation is held by the Department of Theatre and Performance of the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Contemporary Art Museum in Saint Petersburg State University is named after Sergei Diaghilev. See also List of dancers References Sources Further reading Buckle, Richard, Diaghilev, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979 Scheijen, Sjeng, Working for Diaghilev, Gent: BAI, 2005; exhibition catalogue of the last major exhibition dedicated to Diaghilev Garafola, Lynn, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989 Garelick, Rhonda K., Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel And The Pulse Of History, New York: Random House, 2015 Archival sources Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev Online Collection and Serge Diaghilev / Serge Lifar Collection at the Library of Congress Howard D. Rothschild collection on Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev at Houghton Library, Harvard University – this collection is divided into four series: I. Manuscripts and objects II. Photographs and scrapbooks III. Howard D. Rothschild papers IV. Drawings and prints Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation collection at Houghton Library,