Zinaida Jurjewskaja
Estonian-Russian singer (1892–1925)
Zinaida Jurjewskaja (10 June 1892 – 3 December 1925; née Lenkin, married name Zinaida von Bremer) was an Estonian-born German operatic soprano singer. Alternative spellings of her surname found in sources include Jurjevskaja, Jurievskaia Yurievskaja and Yuryevskaja. She adopted this as her stage name as a tribute to her birthplace.
Zinaida Lenkina was born in Tartu, Estonia, on 19 June 1892. She was an intelligent child, speaking Estonian, German and Russian, and started to play the piano at the age of six. She graduated from the Tartu Puškin Girls' Gymnasium aged 15. She began studying in the history-philology department of the Tartu Higher Women's Course, but in 1912 moved to the Saint Petersburg Conservatory to study singing with Alma Fohström. She had met guards officer Georg von Brehmer (1890–1935) at Kuressaare in 1908, and met him again in St Petersburg. They married in 1918, the year in which she graduated from the conservatory.
She had a successful singing career in Estonia and then moved to the Berlin Opera House.
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