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Maria Merzhevskaya (Olga)
Maria Yelizarova (Tatiana), Andrei Atlantov (Gremin). City Theatre. 1942

Listed on the playbill alongside the names of acclaimed opera singers – Preobrazhenskaya, Nechaev and Legkov – was the name of the twenty-two-year-old Maria Merzhevskaya, who joined the company on 30 September 1942. In the photo on the right: Andrei Atlantov (Gremin) declares his love for his wife Maria Yelizarova (Tatiana). Today’s audiences will be more familiar with their son – Vladimir Atlantov, a famed tenor and People’s Artist of the USSR who has been made an Honorary Kammersänger of the Wiener Staatsoper.