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ШАЛЯПИН

Bibliographic Description

Шаляпин / Дмитриевский, В.Н. – М. : Мол. гвардия, 2014. – (Жизнь замечательных людей). – ISBN 978-5-235-03667-3.

Author
Дмитриевский, В.Н.
Publisher
Мол. гвардия
Year of publication
2014
Classification index (UDC)
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Language
Russian
Publication type
Book
Country of Publication
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Access
Available to all

Description

Russian culture gave the world a singer of truly universal scale. A great artist, a national genius, he lives on in the consciousness of the modern generation as a "legendary man", a "comet named Fyodor", a "citizen of the world", and he still occupies his own unique place within it today. And yet Chaliapin's creative life and personal fate took shape in a complex and contradictory manner: intense, at times agonizing, searches for himself as a person, a difficult mastering of his profession, an awareness of the power of his talent — all interspersed with brilliant artistic discoveries and failures on stage, the triumphant raptures of his admirers and the intrigues of envious enemies. Always open to people, he drank the full cup of artistic fame, friendly devotion, love and family happiness, but he also lived through the bitterness of betrayal, separation, lies and slander. The author, a doctor of sciences and a scholar of Russian theater, drawing on documentary sources, memoir testimony, letters and official documents, tells of the life not only of a great singer, but also of an extraordinarily charming man. The book is published in the year of the 140th anniversary of F.I. Chaliapin's birth.

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