Шаляпин: Герой и автор

The compiler of this collection is the famous researcher of the life and work of Fyodor Chaliapin, Joseph Darsky This is a new work of the researcher of the great Russian singer. His already published books are “Through the Eyes of a Daughter” (memoirs of Lidia Chaliapina) and “People's Artist ... of His Majesty Chaliapin”. 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: So - "Chaliapin: a hero and an author." Darsky writes in the preface: "... the book is not entirely mine" ... And indeed: it contains everything "that is related to the singer - publications about him in prose and poetry - they made up the first half of the book, and publications of the works of Chaliapin himself (the second half), both well-known and unfamiliar. ”Except, of course, materials well known to many readers included in the Moscow three-volume edition of 1979. Darsky’s book also contains excerpts from memoirs and stories about Chaliapin Ivan Bunin, Leonid Andreev, Alexander Kuprin, Vladimir Gilyarovsky, Lev Kassil ... Total - 270 pages of small text. I read them almost immediately, putting aside the other books that were waiting in line." The book contains high-quality photographs of Chaliapin. The book contains a dedication to friends made by the author and, of course, his signature