Autograph of Fedor Shalyapin

Certified Authentic Photo Autograph (C 286). Fyodor Chaliapin (1873-1938) - Russian opera and chamber singer (high bass), at various times a soloist of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky theaters, as well as the Metropolitan Opera, the first People's Artist of the Republic (1918-1927, the title was returned in 1991), in 1918 -1921 - artistic director of the Mariinsky Theater. He gained a reputation as an artist who combined in his work “innate musicality, bright vocal abilities, and extraordinary acting skills.” He had a great influence on world opera. At different times he was engaged in painting, graphics, sculpture and acted in films. Writer-memoirist.