Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel

Nadezhda Ivanovna Zabela-Vrubel (Russian: Надежда Ивановна Забела-Врубель 1 April [O.S.

In 1891 she graduated from the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, having been in the class of Natalia Iretskaya.

In the season 1894–95 she sang in Tiflis, in 1895–96 in the St Petersburg Private opera, and in 1896–97 in Kharkov.

During 1897–1904 she was a leading soprano in Savva Mamontov's Private Russian Opera.

In 1896 she married the Russian artist Mikhail Vrubel, who created a series of her portraits.