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has lived in this world for 65 years, and in another he's already lived 51 years.

Shaljapins first wife was an italian ballerina.

In Russia they had 10 years of happiness and 50 years of hard life.

It reached to you in 1886 and it succeeded to only return in native land in 1960

These are their children:

Their firstborn Igor, Fedja and Tanja.

Igor, whom the father loved foolishly, died at the age of four.

The boy had an extraordinary talent for music

His death almost made Shaljpapin commit suicide.

The family lived in the Novinskij avenue in Moscow,

in this house, which Saljapin had purchased.

We have not mentioned the other two children, Irina and Lidja, the two elder sisters.

Lidja will become one singer, Irina a theater actress, Boris an artist and Fedor a cinema actor.

Meanwhile, Tatjana passed all of life to fore for the family.

The only ones still alive is Tatjana and Fedor.

During this period of time there were two world wars.

But since Saljapin serviced the Russian emperor, we understand how much an artist could gain from it.

During the first world war, he funded a hospital and family members worked at it.

His wife, Iola Ignatieva, his daughter Lidja, his son Boris and his daughter Irina.

We remember the son Fedor. He will have a long life and become a wealthy actor in Hollywood.

In this film we see Fedor Fedorovitj in a small episode from material belonging to the film Fellini Roma.

The year is 1932.

In this film, dated to 1915, Saljapin is about to finish "The child from Pskov", in the role of Ivan the Terrible.

With her, Saljapin will soon form his second family.

This family lived in St Petersburg,

From this union bastard childs will be born, all girls: Marfa, Marina and Dassja.

The children from his first family lives with them.

Saljapin loved his families very much.

At some photographs, in which a family with twelve children appears, she watched for a long time, whith envy and admiration.

He lived in a world where everything had a purpose, and everyone had their rightful role.

For him, women only existed for being the companions of men.

They appealed to beautiful, prosperous and with long hats in order to heat their men during the winter

Now we'll see an interesting document.

Office for the presentation of requests

"Request to legitimize bastard childs, Feodor Shaljapin, at present this demands adoption and attribution of just the last name and the father's name, let alone of the rights of being up rank to he

The love children Marfa and Marina, daughters to the widow of the merchant Kazanskij, Petzold Maria."

Saljapin's two wifes who survived him.

This one died in 1965, and the other one in 1964.

None of the children will touch in fate of being inprisoned or to die in a war. Europe protects them.

Only Irina lived all her life, from the beginning to the end, in Soviet Russia.

Fedor Fedorovitj went to Petrograd in 1918. In 1986 he was brought there for the second time.

A letter from Gorkij's archives on the funeral of Chechov

We waited for some speech in front of the grave, but in vain

People began to insist on Gorkij that he speak.

As for Saljapin... people examined us meticulously.

And still not even a word for Chechov.

I do not know who those persons were

They scrambled up on the trees, broke off crosses, contended the place and were asked screaming:

"Which is the wife? And the sister? Who is what she cries?" All this seemed to me unnecessary...

It was an unbearable sadness.

Shaljapin swore and cried: Is this the people he has lived for?

For them he had worked, studied, rebuked?

I would carry trough the cemetery.

When we mounted to horse, we were surrounded by the crowd that watched us, smiling

On of the many persons cried out: gentlemen, go away, this is not decorous!"

They naturally didn't go away.

Nicholas II answered timely to the above mentioned.

"I order with good will that the younger daughters Marfa and Marina, children of the widow of the merchant Kazanskij, Petzold Maria

take the last name of the petitioner."

Another interesting document:

"I, Fedor Fedorovich Saljapin, having become the head of the Saljapin family

as a result of my elder brother Boris' death, I authorize the transfer from Paris in native land

of the coffin with the mortal remains of my father.

My sister Tatjana Fedorovna Cernova, born Saljapin, has consulted with me and agreed. Signed, F. F. Saljapin"

The document is edited at Vaduz, capital of Liechtenstein, december 24th, 1982, near the residence of my friend baron Eduard Von Falz-Feyn"

The new interment had place in the cemetary of Novodevice to Moscow.