Фёдор Шаляпин. Безумно я люблю Торнаги

So svoeĭ pervoĭ zhenoĭ - italʹi͡anskoĭ balerinoĭ Ioloĭ Tornagi Shali͡apin poznakomilsi͡a v Russkoĭ Chastnoĭ opere Savvy Mamontova. I tak plenilsi͡a ei͡u, chto na generalʹnoĭ repetit͡sii "Evgenii͡a Onegina" v arii Gremina pozvolil sebe otstuplenie ot teksta: "Onegin, i͡a kli͡anusʹ na shpage, bezumno i͡a li͡ubli͡u Tornagi…" - nemalo pozabaviv truppu. Iola Ignatʹevna, zhenshchina neobyknovennoĭ dushevnoĭ shchedrosti i obai͡anii͡a, stanet materʹi͡u shesterykh deteĭ Shali͡apina, i, nesmotri͡a na nesomnennyĭ artisticheskiĭ dar, ostavit st͡senu radi semʹi. V 33 goda Fëdor Ivanovich sblizhaetsi͡a s Marieĭ Pett͡solʹd, razryvai͡asʹ mezhdu dvumi͡a domami v Moskve i Peterburge i dvumi͡a zhenshchinami, kazhdui͡u iz kotorykh po-svoemu li͡ubil. V fokuse belletrizovannogo povestvovanii͡a Viktora Petelina - izvestnogo biografa F.I.Shali͡apina - lichnai͡a zhiznʹ russkogo genii͡a, kotorai͡a ne izbezhala svetskikh spleten.

Chaliapin met his first wife, the Italian ballerina Iola Tornagi, at the Russian Private Opera of Savva Mamontov. And he was so captivated by her that at the dress rehearsal of "Eugene Onegin" in Gremin's aria he allowed himself to digress from the text: "Onegin, I swear on the sword, I love Tornagi madly..." — having amused the troupe a lot. Iola Ignatievna, a woman of extraordinary spiritual generosity and charm, will become the mother of Chaliapin's six children, and, despite her undoubted artistic gift, will leave the stage for the sake of her family. At the age of 33, Fyodor Ivanovich gets closer to Maria Petzold, torn between two houses in Moscow and St. Petersburg and two women, each of whom he loved in his own way. The fictionalized narrative of Victor Petelin, the famous biographer of F.I. Chaliapin, focuses on the personal life of a Russian genius who has not escaped secular gossip.