Petersburg Elegy

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

00:06:02 Igor, whom the father loved foolishly, died at the age of four.

00:06:20 The family lived in the Novinskij avenue in Moscow

00:06:34 Lidja will become one singer, Irina a theater actress, Boris an artist and Fedor a cinema actor.

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.

00:12:06 With her, Saljapin will soon form his second family.

00:12:25 The children from his first family lives with them.

00:13:06 He lived in a world where everything had a purpose, and everyone had their rightful role.

00:13:45 Now we'll see an interesting document.

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.

00:17:31 We waited for some speech in front of the grave, but in vain

00:17:46 And still not even a word for Chechov.

00:17:58 "Which is the wife? And the sister? Who is what she cries?" All this seemed to me unnecessary...

00:18:11 For them he had worked, studied, rebuked?

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

00:19:00 "I, Fedor Fedorovich Saljapin, having become the head of the Saljapin family

00:19:20 My sister Tatjana Fedorovna Cernova, born Saljapin, has consulted with me and agreed. Signed, F. F. Saljapin"