Маска и душа Федор Шаляпин

Almost sixty years have passed since the death of Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin, but interest in his personality and work does not wane, his glory does not fade. He continues to be the standard of an opera singer, a role model, an idol of millions of people who were born much later than his death, the pride of Russian and world culture. In addition to numerous stage masks, Chaliapin had one more - the mask of a person prosperous in all respects, the darling of fate. This is how Europe perceived him after the singer emigrated from Russia. And only in his memoirs, first published in Paris in 1932, did he write about the bitter bread of an exile, about longing for his homeland, about his soul, which too many did not bother to understand...