The exhibition is dedicated to the creative legacy and lives of two major representatives of Russian culture: the writer Maxim Gorky and the singer Feodor Chaliapin. They were great friends — they even called themselves “brothers”.
The lives of Gorky and Chaliapin were closely connected with Kazan. At the age of 16, young Maxim Gorky came from Nizhny Novgorod to Kazan to enter the university and ended up living in the city for four years, which he called his true “universities”. Feodor Chaliapin was born in Kazan and spent his childhood in the working-class suburbs, meanwhile learning to sing in a church choir and falling in love with theater for the rest of his life.
The exhibition brings the two men closer together and highlights their lives against the backdrop of the same era. It presents portraits, photographs, clothes, manuscripts, musical instruments and personal belongings. The exhibition “Gorky and Chaliapin. The Era and Its Heroes” provides a revealing insight into how these people became who they were and a key to understanding their legacy.
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