In a letter to AM Gorky Chaliapin wrote: " .. I bought from the artist Konstantin Fyodorovich Yuon seven sketches of scenery ," Boris Godunov ", that are written today for Paris. And every day I admire not Love Enough to them - excellent stuff ... I paid him fifteen hundred rubles. A pleasure to have a hundred and fifty . What a lovely, honest to God, - a talented guy zalaskat hell ! "
I do not know if Fedor Chaliapin an avid collector, but to compare material investments and the resulting moral satisfaction in being able to contemplate , as one in a hundred -spoke , perhaps, on this his weakness ....
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