The puppet Petrouchka was one of Vaslav Nijinsky’s most famous roles, Bronislava Nijinska wrote of her brother’s performance at the end of <em>Petrouchka</em>: “With an agonizing pain and sadness in his eyes, he extends a trembling arm in farewell to the crowd, knowing that only they, the gray, common, Russian crowd, love and understand Petrouchka. The heavy wooden head hangs to one side, and the tragic eyes stare out of the grotesque, still mask of the doll’s face.”