Books from a 10-volume collection of Chekhov’s works, published by the St. Petersburg publishing house of Adolf Fedorovich Marks, are laid out under the glass window. On the backbones, the first letters of the name and patronymic, the writer’s surname, as well as the serial number of each volume are displayed in gold paint. The bottom of the cover contains a gold inscription ‘N. V. Vakhtin’s Bookbinding in Yalta’. And on the title page of the first volume of the collection there is a dedication in ink: “To the infinitely beloved author from Fanny Tatarinova.”
Fanny Karlovna Tatarinova (nee Bergman, can also be written as Berman) is a of the Moscow Conservatory’s singing class. Her teachers were Nikolai Dmitrievich Kashkin (music theory), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (rhytm), Ivan Vasilievich Samarin (drama). Despite the bright talent and internship with Pauline Viardot-Garcia herself in France, Fanny Karlovna’s opera career did not work out. The illness of her husband and children forced the Tatarinov family to settle in Yalta, where the singer’s creative activity was expressed with participation in charity concerts and dramatic performances.
Fanny Karlovna Tatarinova (nee Bergman, can also be written as Berman) is a of the Moscow Conservatory’s singing class. Her teachers were Nikolai Dmitrievich Kashkin (music theory), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (rhytm), Ivan Vasilievich Samarin (drama). Despite the bright talent and internship with Pauline Viardot-Garcia herself in France, Fanny Karlovna’s opera career did not work out. The illness of her husband and children forced the Tatarinov family to settle in Yalta, where the singer’s creative activity was expressed with participation in charity concerts and dramatic performances.