Правдивая история моей жизни

Fedor Ivanovich Shali͡apin (1873 - 1938) - odin iz tekh, kto stal simvolom Rossii. Vydai͡ushchiĭsi͡a opernyĭ i kamernyĭ pevet͡s, on pokoril svoim iskusstvom vesʹ mir, proslaviv russkui͡u muzykalʹnui͡u shkolu. V svoikh memuarakh Shali͡apin pishet: "Avtobiografii͡a pechataetsi͡a mnoi͡u ne v t͡seli͡akh samoreklamy, - i͡a vpolne dostatochno i vsi͡udu reklamirovan moei͡u chetvertʹi͡uvekovoĭ rabotoĭ na st͡senakh russkikh i evropeĭskikh teatrov. I͡A napisal ėti stranit͡sy dli͡a togo, chtoby li͡udi, chitai͡a ikh v ėto trudnoe vremi͡a ugnetenii͡a dukha i ti͡azhkikh somneniĭ v sile svoeĭ, podumali nad zhiznʹi͡u russkogo cheloveka, kotoryĭ khoti͡a i s velikim trudom, no vylez, vyplyl s gri͡aznogo dna zhizni na poverkhnostʹ ee i okazal delu propagandy russkogo iskusstva za granit͡seĭ uslugi, kotorye nelʹzi͡a otrit͡satʹ". K dannomu izdanii͡u memuarov priobshchen takzhe tekst, prodiktovannyĭ Shali͡apinym vo vremi͡a prebyvanii͡a v Amerike v seredine 1920-kh godov, kotoryĭ sluzhit logicheskim zaversheniem knigi.

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.