Chaliapin. Tsar-bass. Dmitrievsky V.N.

Russian culture gave the singer to the world truly universal scale. The great artist, a national genius, he lives in the minds of the modern generation as “Legend Man”, “Comet by the name of Fedor”, “Citizen of the World” and today occupies his unique place in it. Meanwhile, the creative life and personal fate of Chaliapin were difficult and contradictory: tense, sometimes painful searches for oneself as a person, difficult development of the profession, awareness of the power of their talent, interspersed with brilliant artistic discoveries and stage failures, triumphal delights of fans and the machinations of envious enemies. Always open to communication, he drank a full bowl of artistic glory, friendly devotion, love, family happiness, but he experienced the bitterness of betrayal, separation, lies, slander.

Author, Doctor of Sciences, researcher of the Russian theater, based on documentary sources, memoirs, letters and official documents, tells about the life of not only a great singer, but also an unusually charming person.