10 Facts About Boris Kochno

Boris Evgenievich Kochno or Kokhno was a Russian poet, dancer, and librettist.

Boris Kochno's father served as a colonel in the hussars.

Boris Kochno studied at the Imperial Lyceum in Moscow before emigrating to Paris in 1920.

Boris Kochno was close with Karol Szymanowski, who gave him as a gift a Russian translation of the chapter The Symposium from his unpublished novel Efebos.

Boris Kochno wrote the libretto of Stravinsky's Mavra, George Auric's Les Facheux, Henri Sauguet's La Chatte, and of Sergei Prokofiev's ballet score The Prodigal Son.

Boris Kochno wrote a libretto for Massin's ballet Jeux d'enfants to Georges Bizet music.

Boris Kochno authored several works, including Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, a record of the Diaghilev era, and Christian Berard, a scrapbook of artwork by Berard, Boris Kochno's former lover and collaborator, along with reminiscences.

In 1925 Boris Kochno had a "passionate affair" with American composer and songwriter Cole Porter, with whom he carried on a lengthy correspondence, as well as Porter's friend, the American diplomat and heir, Hermann Oelrichs Jr.

Boris Kochno died on 8 December 1990 in Paris following a fall.

Boris Kochno was buried in the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, next to Wladimir Augenblick.