In 1882, Rachmaninoff's father had to auction off their home due to his financial incompetence--his five estates had been reduced to one; he was described as "a wastrel, a compulsive gambler, a pathological liar, and a skirt chaser".
In 1882, Rachmaninoff's father had to auction off their Oneg estate due to his financial incompetence--the family's five estates had been reduced to one. Rachmaninoff described his father as "a wastrel, a compulsive gambler, a pathological liar, and a skirt chaser".