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Adelna Bol'ska (1864–1930)

Adelina Bol'ska

Russian soprano (b. 1864 in Moscow; d. 1930), born Adelina Iulianovna Skompskaia (Аделина Юлиановна Скомпская, Adelina Julianovna Skompskaja, Adelina Yulianovna Skompskaya); known onstage as Adelina Bol'ska (Аделина Больска), or after her marriage as Countess Dienheim-Brochocki-Szczawińska.

After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory, Adelina toured Italy and Paris, before returning to Russia to wide acclaim at the Mariinskii Theatre in Saint Petersburg and the Bol'shoi Theatre in Moscow. She later married the Polish Count Alexander Dienheim-Brochocki-Szczawiński (1841–1907).

Correspondence with Adelina Bol'ska:

• 3 letters from Tchaikovsky to Adelina Bol'ska have survived, dating from 1889 to 1893.