Petersburg Elegy

00:05:30 Shaljapins first wife was an italian ballerina.

00:05:53 Their firstborn Igor, Fedja and Tanja.

00:06:10 His death almost made Shaljpapin commit suicide.

00:06:23 in this house, which Saljapin had purchased.

00:06:40 Meanwhile, Tatjana passed all of life to fore for the family.

00:06:51 During this period of time there were two world wars.

00:07:23 His wife, Iola Ignatieva, his daughter Lidja, his son Boris and his daughter Irina.

00:08:11 In this film we see Fedor Fedorovitj in a small episode from material belonging to the film Fellini Roma.

00:12:16 From this union bastard childs will be born, all girls: Marfa, Marina and Dassja.

00:12:56 At some photographs, in which a family with twelve children appears, she watched for a long time, whith envy and admiration.

00:13:11 For him, women only existed for being the companions of men.

00:13:57 Office for the presentation of requests

00:14:21 and attribution of just the last name and the father's name, let alone of the rights of being up rank to he

00:15:30 None of the children will touch in fate of being inprisoned or to die in a war. Europe protects them.

00:17:25 A letter from Gorkij's archives on the funeral of Chechov

00:17:39 As for Saljapin... people examined us meticulously.

00:17:52 They scrambled up on the trees, broke off crosses, contended the place and were asked screaming:

00:18:05 It was an unbearable sadness.

00:18:15 I would carry trough the cemetery.

00:18:24 On of the many persons cried out: gentlemen, go away, this is not decorous!"

00:18:40 "I order with good will that the younger daughters Marfa and Marina, children of the widow of the merchant Kazanskij, Petzold Maria

00:18:57 Another interesting document:

00:19:17 of the coffin with the mortal remains of my father.

24:19:08 residence of my friend baron Eduard Von Falz-Feyn"