Portrait of Feodor Chaliapin as Ivan Susanin in M. I. Glinka’s opera “A Life for the Tsar”

FEODOR IVANOVICH CHALIAPIN (1873–1938) Singer (basso), the Bolshoi Theatre artist 1899–1922. He performed the parts of Ivan Susanin — “A Life for the Tsar”, Farlaf — “Ruslan and Ludmila”, Boris Godunov — “Boris Godunov”, Dosifey— “Khovanshchina”, Miller — “Rusalka”, Holofernes— “Judith”, Ivan the Terrible — “The Maid of Pskov”, the Demon — “The Demon”, Don Quixote — “Don Quixote”, Mephistopheles — “Faust” by Charles Gounod and “Mephistopheles” by Arrigo Boito, etc.