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Anna Vorobyova
Born:
1816, St Petersburg
Died:
1901, St Petersburg
Opera singer, contralto. Born in St Petersburg in the family of Yakov Vorobyov (1816). First performer of the part of Vanya in Mikhail Glinka’s opera A Life for the Tsar (1836). Married Osip Petrov (1837). Died in St Petersburg (1901).
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