Real name: Мария Александровна Михайлова

Effective period / Period of releases: 1905 - 1918

Born: June 3[O.S. June 15], 1866, Kharkiv, Russian Empire
Died: January 18, 1943, Perm, Urals

Russian opera singer, soprano vocalist.

She studied three years in St. Petersburg with Z. P. Grenning-Vilde, then she studied for approximately four years in Milan with S. Ronconi and in Paris with Saint-Yves-Bax and De-Laborde.
From 1892 to 1912 she was a soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg where she made her debut as Margherita in ‘’Gli Ugonotti’’ of Meyerbeer. During her career she also performed in Orel, Tambov, Odessa, at the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre (1902), Vladivostok (1903), Kharkiv, in the cities of Sibiria (1909). She made guest appearances in Prague (1903), Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Austria, and Japan.