Yelizaveta Lavrovskaya
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Yelizaveta Andreyevna Lavrovskaya was a Russian mezzo-soprano praised for her dramatic performances of operatic arias and her sensitive interpretations of lieder.
Portrait of Lavrovskaya on stage, 1878, by Ivan Kramskoi
Vasily Safonov
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Vasily Ilyich Safonov, also known as Wassily Safonoff, was a Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer.
Vasily Safonov (1902)
Safonov with his pupils from the Moscow Conservatory (left to right): Rosina Lhévinne, Alexander Goedicke, Elena Beckman-Shcherbina, Olimpiada Kartasheva and Aglaida Fridman