Nadezhda Vasilevna Plevitskaya, born Vinnikova (Russian: Надежда Васильевна Плевицкая), (January 17, 1884 - October 1, 1940), was the most popular female Russian female singer of the White Emigre era. Plevitskaya was born to a peasant family in the village of Vinnikovo near Kursk. She loved to sing, and after two years in a religious chorus she became a professional singer in Kiev, where she married a Polish dancer named Edmond Plevitsky. Read more on Last.fm