FAMOUS SINGERS OF THE MARIINSKY THEATRE, part one  (all photos from the Charles Mintzer collection)

             
(Pavel Andreev as Ruslan)                                               (Adelaide Bolskaya)

          
(Nikolai Figner portrait, idem as Lenski)

         
(Alexander Matveyev in Sadko)                               (Ivan Melnikov, creator Tokmakov, Maid of Pskov)

                  
                                    (Leonid Sobinov, Bayan in Ruslan and Lyudmilla)

                          (Sobinov, portrait)

                           
               (Felia Litvinne as Isolde)                                    (Litvinne as Natasha,Rusalka, Dargomyzhsky)

         
(Andrei Labinsky in The Demon)                                               (Dimitri Smirnov)
 
       
 (Nina Friede)                                    (Valentina Kusa in The Demon) (Grigory Stravinski,non-Mariinsky)

        
(Kipras Petrauskas, Lakmé)                 (Mikhail Karakash,Onegin)     (Vladimir Maiboroda , Ruslan)