Mask and Soul

The great Russian singer, owner of a unique bass voice, soloist of the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theaters—Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin. The phonotheque of his voice recordings includes more than 150 works. He mastered Italian, French, and English perfectly. He constantly improved his drawing and took up sculpting. His personal library contained over a thousand books, most of which he studied thoroughly. And at the same time, legends were made about his difficult character. So what was this man really like—called nothing less than a Russian operatic genius?

The answer is in the audiobook by Fyodor Shalyapin “Mask and Soul.” We are in for an extremely candid account from the author about the beginning of his creative career, about the revolution and emigration—and of course about the people he met along the way: Savva Mamontov, Maxim Gorky, Konstantin Korovin, Isaac Levitan, and many other no less outstanding artists, writers, patrons, and musicians whose names are forever etched into the history of our country.

Also don’t miss the previously released audiobooks of memoirs: O. Arosev “Without Make-up,” S. Yursky “Ranevskaya’s Last Role/ Georgy Tovstonogov,” V. Smekhov “When I Was Athos,” A. Shirvindt “The Past Without Thoughts,” Yu. Solomin “From an Aide to His Excellency,” K. Korovin “Memoirs,” K. Petrov-Vodkin “Khlynovsk,” K. Petrov-Vodkin “Euclid’s Space,” F. Shalyapin “Mask and Soul”