28 Facts About Romola Nijinsky

Romola Nijinsky's father had to go into exile when she was a child, and committed suicide in Australia.

Romola Nijinsky discovered his diary, written before he went into an asylum, which she published in a "bowdlerized" version in 1936.

Romola Nijinsky published a biography of her husband's later years in 1952, two years after his death in London.

Romola Nijinsky de Pulszky was born in Hungary as the second daughter of Emilia Markus, the most renowned Hungarian actress of her time, and Karoly Pulszky, a Hungarian politician, member of Parliament and director of the Hungarian National Gallery of Art.

Romola Nijinsky's family came from Poland and were of French Huguenot descent, but had converted to Catholicism.

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Romola Nijinsky was eight years old when he committed suicide at the age of 45 in Brisbane, Australia.

Romola Nijinsky was deeply disturbed by the loss and resented her mother's remarriage a few years later.

Romola Nijinsky struggled with studies and direction, trying to work at acting but failed.

Romola Nijinsky became engaged to a Hungarian baron at the age of 21, but called it off in 1912 after having seen the Ballets Russes.

Romola Nijinsky decided to shift her focus to the theatrical world of ballet.

Romola Nijinsky was particularly astounded by and attracted to the dancing of Vaslav Nijinsky, as were all of his audiences.

Romola Nijinsky was fixated on wanting to dance for the Ballets Russes and become close to Nijinsky.

Romola Nijinsky eventually got close to him while on a ship headed for South America.

Romola became pregnant right away, and Nijinsky missed performances due to his own symptoms of couvade syndrome.

Romola Nijinsky generally did not keep any married dancers in the company.

Romola Nijinsky was committed to a series of Swiss mental institutions, and was confined for most of his remaining 30 years.

Romola Nijinsky was treated at Burgholzli and the Bellevue Sanatorium in Kreuzlingen.

Romola Nijinsky was originally diagnosed as schizophrenic by Eugen Bleuler in 1919.

Romola Nijinsky was treated by a number of psychiatrists with minimal results.

Romola Nijinsky discovered the diary her husband wrote over a period of six weeks in 1919 before being committed to an asylum in Switzerland.

In 1938, Romola Nijinsky began to receive regular insulin shock therapy over the course of a year, until the beginning of World War II.

Out of concern for her husband's safety after the German invasion of Budapest, Romola Nijinsky took her husband to Sopron, where they stayed until the end of the war.

Kyra Romola Nijinsky became a dancer, specializing in a couple of roles her father had done as well as a new dance by Antony Tudor.

Romola Nijinsky was too young to have seen her father dance, but became executive director of the Vaslav and Romola Nijinsky Foundation, to preserve and promote her father's art, including paintings and drawings he did late in life.

Romola Nijinsky emigrated to the US and settled in Phoenix, Arizona.

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In 1952 Romola published her second biography of Nijinsky, called The Last Years of Nijinsky.

In 1995, an unexpurgated English edition was published of The Diary of Vaslav Romola Nijinsky, edited by Joan Acocella, a professional writer about dance, and in a new translation by Kyril FitzLyon.

Romola Nijinsky's diary reflected the decline of his household into chaos before he was committed to an asylum.