Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev was a Soviet and Russian opera singer and director. People's Artist of the USSR (1950).
Lemeshev as Lensky in Eugene Onegin
The Snow Maiden: A Spring Fairy Tale is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composed during 1880–1881. The Russian libretto, by the composer, is based on the like-named play by Alexander Ostrovsky.
Yevgeniya Zbruyeva as Lel at the Bolshoy Theatre, Moscow (1894)
Aleksandr Ostrovsky (1823–1886) wrote the drama The Snow Maiden in 1873.
Leonid Sobinov as Tsar Berendey (Bolshoy Theatre, Moscow 1911)