Nadezhda Obukhova

Her grandfather Andrian Mazaraki [Wikidata] was a noted pianist, and her great-grandfather Yevgeny Baratynsky was a poet of Pushkin circle.

[3] Her family had some wealth, and would often spend summers in Nice, France, where Obukhova received her first singing lessons from Eleanora Lipman.

[3] After her graduation, she found work singing in various concerts around Russian Empire, but she did not make her operatic debut until 1916.

She quickly became a popular singer, appearing in a number of other productions including Carmen, Dalila, The Tsar's Bride (as Marfa and as Lyubasha), The Snow Maiden, Der Ring des Nibelungen (as Fricka), Marina (by Emilio Arrieta), The Love for Three Oranges and Sadko.

She gave other radio concerts, including the first broadcast from the Bolshoi Theatre, a production of The Tsar's Bride with Antonina Nezhdanova, Leonid Speransky and Vasily Petrov.