Galina Vishnevskaya
Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (née Ivanova, Russian: Гали на Па вловна Вишне вская; 25 October 1926 – 11 December 2012) was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. She was also the wife of world-famous cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and mother to two daughters, Olga and Elena Rostropovich.