This is from a private wax cylinder made probably around 1902-1905. Chaliapin sings this in "white voice" (белый голос), a method of folksinging used in rural villages throughout Russia, Ukraine, and other Slavic lands.
"I have worn my eyes out" Russian folksong
Feodor Chaliapin (also Fyodor Shalyapin)
Федор Шаляпин
Unaccompanied
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