A large collection of nine antique and vintage hand signed photographs of Russian opera singers and composer Dmitri Shostakovich. The lot includes: Two photographs of Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev, 1902 to 1977. Sergei Yakovlevich Lemeshev was a Soviet and Russian opera singer and director. Peoples Artist of the USSR. Photograph of Ivan Alekseevich Nechaev, 1900 to 1963. Ivan Alekseevich Nechaev is a Soviet opera singer and teacher. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1936). Photograph of Vera Sottarovna Klopotovskaya, date of birth 1873, date of death is unknown. Vera Sottarovna Klopotovskaya is an opera and chamber singer and teacher. Soloist of the Moscow Private Opera of S. Zimin and the Tomsk Opera House. Photograph of Nikolai Lavrov as Peter the Great in the opera Tsar the Carpenter. Photograph of Vasily Petrovich Damaev, 1878 to 1932. Vasily Petrovich Damaev - artist of Russian opera and concert stage of the early twentieth century. Photograph of Mikhail Ivanovich Donetsб 1883 to 1941. Mikhail Ivanovich Donets - Ukrainian Soviet singer, Peoples Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1930). Photograph of Oscar Isaevich Kamionsky, 1869 to 1917. Oscar Isaevich Kamionsky is a Russian opera and chamber singer and music teacher. And photographs of Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich, 1906 to 1975. Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Collectible Russian Autographed Photographs, Historical Relics.