Nadezhda Repina

Her talent took all genres: opera, operetta, comedy, vaudeville, drama, tragedy.

Many playwrights wrote leading roles for her in their plays (Dmitry Lensky, Aleksander Pisarev).

She was especially successful in comedies and vaudevilles where her partner was the famous Russian actor Mikhail Shchepkin.

[4] Alexey Verstovsky was not only a composer, he became the head of Music department at the Moscow Imperial troupe.

He knew that would be expected large changes and, fearing that they would affect to his wife, asked without her knowledge to the Directorate for her dismissal.

Nadezhda Repina and Alexey Verstovsky made the official church marriage.

Her partner, actor S. Solovyov wrote that she was interested of only one thing: her acting, without it she could not live, and she was very grieved at her inaction.

[5] One newspaper wrote the obituary: "With its leaving the Moscow scene suffered a great loss, and God knows when and by whom it will be recharged.