Iola Tornaghi

Ballet performer, wife of Fjodor Shaliapin 

They met first time in Nizhny Novgorod, and married in 1896. Iola  was an Italian actress born in Monza (near Milan) In this marriage were born six children: Feodor, Tatiana, Irina, Lydia, Igor (who died at the age of 4) and Boris.

Iola Tornaghi lived in  (USSR) for a long time, and only at the end of 1950, at the invitation of her son Feodor, moved to Rome.

Later Feodor Chaliapin met Maria Valentinovna Petzold, who had two children from her first marriage. Feodor Chaliapin and Maria had three daughters, Marfa, Marina and Dasiya.

In fact Chaliapin had two families. The first family lived in Moscow, the second family in St. Petersburg. First marriage was not dissolved, and the second was not registered, and it was considered invalid.

Officially marriage of Maria Valentinovna with Chaliapin was issued in 1927 in Paris.