Izabella Yurieva

Izabella Yurieva (Russian: Изабелла Юрьева) is the stage name of Izabella Danilovna Livikova (Russian: Изабелла Даниловна Ливикова;[1] 7 September 1899[2] – 20 January 2000), a Russian singer nicknamed the "Queen of the Russian Romance"[3][4] who celebrated her centennial at a tribute concert given in her honor at the Central Concert Hall in Moscow in 1999.[5]

Izabella Yurieva
Born
Izabella Danilovna Livikova

(1899-09-07)7 September 1899
Rostov-on-Don
Died20 January 2000(2000-01-20) (aged 100)
Moscow
Resting placeDonskoye Cemetery
Moscow
NationalityRussian
Years active1922–2000
AwardsPeople's Artist of Russia (1992)
Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class (1999)

She was one of the top performers of the romantic Russian Gypsy songs in the late 1920s and 1930s before the genre became almost taboo in Soviet Russia.[6]

Yurieva was largely forgotten until the 1990s when she resurfaced on television and was named a People's Artist of Russia.[3]

See also

References
  1. «Старинные романсы и песни»
  2. Some sources indicate her birth year as possibly 1902, but her obituary and tombstone both list 1899
  3. "Умерла Изабелла Юрьева". Kommersant.ru. 8 September 1999. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
  4. "Белая цыганка". Kommersant.ru. 21 January 2000. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  5. Billboard, 6 November 1999; p. 57.
  6. Юрьев Л. Г. Юрьян А. А. "Юрьева И. Д. – это... Что такое Юрьева И. Д.?". Dic.academic.ru. Retrieved 31 July 2017.


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