The true story of my life

Fedor Ivanovich Chaliapin (1873 - 1938) - one of those who became a symbol of Russia. An outstanding opera and chamber singer, he conquered the whole world with his art, glorifying the Russian music school.
In his memoirs, Chaliapin writes: "Autobiography is not printed by me for self -promotion - I am quite enough and advertised everywhere in my quarter -century work on the scenes of Russian and European theaters. I wrote these pages so that people, reading them in this difficult time in oppression of the spirit and grave doubts about their strength, think about the life of a Russian person, who, although with great difficulty, came out, swam from the dirty bottom of life to its surface and I provided the propaganda of Russian art abroad services that cannot be denied. "
A text dictated by Chaliapin during his stay in America in the mid-1920s, which served as the logical conclusion of the book, was also introduced to this publication of memoirs