Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (1873-1938) is one of those who became a symbol of Russia. An outstanding opera and chamber singer, he conquered the whole world with his art, glorifying the Russian music school. In his memoirs, Chaliapin writes: "I am not publishing my autobiography for the purposes of self–promotion, - I am quite sufficiently and everywhere advertised by my quarter-century work on the stages of Russian and European theaters. Russian Russian I wrote these pages so that people, reading them at this difficult time of oppression of the spirit and grave doubts about their strength, would think about the life of a Russian man who, although with great difficulty, but got out, floated from the dirty bottom of life to the surface of it and rendered services to the cause of the propaganda of Russian art abroad, which there is no denying it." The text dictated by Chaliapin during his stay in America in the mid-1920s, which serves as the logical conclusion of the book, is also attached to this edition of the memoirs.