Nadezhda Plevitskaya

Nadezhda Vasilievna Plevitskaya (Russian: Наде́жда Васи́льевна Плеви́цкая; née Vinnikova (Ви́нникова); 29 January [O.S. 17 January] 1884 – 1 October 1940) was a popular female Russian folk singer.^[1] Following the Russian Civil War, she lived in exile and was later recruited by the NKVD.

^ Pamela A. Jordan (2016). Stalin's Singing Spy: The Life and Exile of Nadezhda Plevitskaya. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-442-24774-1.

[1] Pamela A. Jordan (2016). Stalin's Singing Spy: The Life and Exile of Nadezhda Plevitskaya. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-442-24774-1.

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