FI Chaliapin memorial

The Chaliapin House Museum on Novinsky Boulevard was the Moscow residence of the world-famous bass Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin from 1910 until his emigration in 1922. Part of the Glinka Museum of Musical Culture, it reconstructs the family interiors and displays stage costumes from his Boris Godunov and Mefistofele, recordings, letters, theatre bills, and gifts from friends such as Rachmaninoff, Korovin, and Gorky. Around 1900 Chaliapin was seen as the embodiment of Russian opera and reshaped what dramatic acting on the opera stage could be. Today the rooms play back recordings he made here, and the bourgeois interior offers a vivid picture of pre-revolutionary Moscow. It works well as a stop between Arbat and the Garden Ring.