Photo by S. Levitsky, St. Petersburg, Russia, early 1870s 6.5 х 10.5 cm Shown as Vanya in the opera Life for the Tsar by Glinka. Elizaveta Andreevna LAVROVSKAYA (1845 - 1919), opera singer (contralto) and teacher. В роли Вани ("Жизнь за царя"). Sang at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg and The Bolshoi Theater in Moscow; later taught at the Moscow Conservatory. Elizaveta Lavrovskaya was friends pianist Nikolai Rubinstein, composers Sergei Taneyev and César Cui, and writers Ivan Turgenev and Fedor Dostoevsky. F1739