Eugenia Mravina by Wesenberg

Eugenia Mravina, born Maria Konstantinowa Mavrinskaya (1864-1914); Russian soprano.
Her singing teacher in St. Petersburg was the baritone Ippolit Petrovich Pryanishnikov and she also received a training as a ballet dancer. To complete her vocal studies she moved to Berlin, where she was a pupil of Désirée Artôt and to Paris, where she was educated by St. Yves Bax. In 1886 she made her debut at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg as Gilda in Verdi's "Rigoletto". Until 1900 she belonged to the great and celebrated singers of this Opera House. Her most memorable roles were Antonida in Glinka's "A life for the Tsar", as Ludmilla in Glinka's "Ruslan and Ludmilla", as Tatjana in Tchaikovsky's "Eugen Onegin", as Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust", as Marguerite de Valois in Meyerbeer's "Les Huguenots", as Violetta in Verdi's "La Traviata", as Gilda in Verdi's "Rigoletto", as Elsa in Wagner's "Lohengrin" etc. Because she had received a professional training as a dancer, she also performed very successfully as prima ballerina at the Mariinsky. She made guest appearances in Moscow (Bolshoi) and other major Russian cities. In 1891 she appeared in London at Covent Garden. In 1894 at the Moscow Conservatory she created the role of Fornarina in Arenski's "Raphael". In 1895 at the Mariinsky she sang at the première of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Christmas Eve" the role of Oksana. She had a very attractive stage appearance and was an actress of high intelligence and dramatic intensity. Her voice was described as radiant in tone and technically excellent. She was one of those singer personalities who founded the great tradition of Russian opera.

On the photo she is seen as Marguerite in Gounod's "Faust".