Народный артист Его Величества ... Шаляпин

The book of the famous researcher of the life and work of Fyodor Chaliapin Joseph Darsky This is the second work of the researcher of the great Russian singer. The first book is “Through the Eyes of a Daughter” (memoirs of Lidia Chaliapina). Iosif Darsky has been studying the life and work of Fyodor Chaliapin for more than thirty years, he is the author of more than fifty publications about him, and was closely acquainted with the descendants of the singer. The circulation of the book, according to the author, does not exceed 200 copies. Here is what the journalist Polovets writes: “Is it worth it…” my interlocutor doubted when, having familiarized myself with the book received from him, I called him in New York and offered to write about it in print, that is, in our press. “It has a very small circulation,” he continued, "there are hardly many who will be interested in its contents. Well, I sent it to you, my friends, to Panorama, to university libraries here - in the States, in Russia ... “That’s exactly why it’s worth it!” I objected. - Few will be able to read it, since you yourself "sentenced" your work to only a hundred or two copies. The book contains a dedication to friends made by the author and, of course, his signature