Nadezhda Vasilyevna Repina ( – ) was a Russian actress and singer (soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

).

The daughter of a serf

SERF

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 actor and musician, she was in the troupe of a landlord called Stolypin, from which she was redeemed in 1825 by the Directors of the Theatrical College. She was famous for her beauty and intelligence and soon assumed a position in Moscow equal to that of Varvara Aksenkova in St Petersburg.

She was especially successful in comedies and vaudeville

Vaudeville

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s where her partner was the famous Russian actor Mikhail Shchepkin

Mikhail Shchepkin

Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin was the most famous Russian actor of the 19th century.As his father was a serf, Shchepkin's freedom had to be bought by his admirers in 1821. Three years later, he joined the Maly Theatre in Moscow, which he would dominate for the next 40 years—it became known as the...

. She was a friend and then wife of the composer Alexey Verstovsky

Alexey Verstovsky

Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky was a Russian composer, musical bureaucrat and rival of Mikhail Glinka.-Biography:...

. She retired in 1841. Sergei Aksakov

Sergei Aksakov

Sergey Timofeyevich Aksakov was a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family life, as well as his books on hunting and fishing.- Early life :...

called her the “adornment of the Moscow stage”.