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...Died. Feodor Sologub, (Feodor Kuzmich Teternikov) 64, Russian poet, playwright, novelist, (The Little Demon, The Sorcery of Death, The Created Legend); in Leningrad, after prolonged illness...
Divorced. Feodor Chaliapin, famed basso; from Yolle Ignatievna Chaliapin whom he married 29 years ago and from whom he has been separated 21 years; in Moscow. Until death, he will pay her $300 monthly. Said a Soviet critic: "It is enough money to maintain an entire Russian orphan asylum...
...Feodor Chaliapin, most famed Russian operatic basso, received news last week in London that the Soviet Trade Union of Artists in Moscow, had just voted to deprive him of his cherished, official Russian title, "The People's Artist." Newsgatherers sought put gigantic Singer Chaliapin in his dressing room, found him sitting hunched and disconsolate in a purple and cream silk dressing gown and red leather slippers. As everyone knows, M. Chaliapin's English is quaint. Correspondents reproduced it as follows: "I was born and always will be, a 'people's' artist. I sing for everyone...
First a blacksmith, then a choirmaster taught Feodor to sing. Once he sang an all-night service, followed by a morning service in the same church...
...Young Feodor and friends would turn cartwheels, climb roofs and trees, shoot catapults, raid gardens, eat ripe poppy seeds. He was eight when he first saw the clown Yashka, a stout old man with ridiculously angry eyes in his coarse face...