Evgenia Mravina, born Evgenia Konstantinovna Mravinskaya, was a Russian opera singer and lyric-coloratura soprano. She was a soloist at the Mariinsky Theatre.
She first studied with Ippolit Pryanishnikov and later continued her vocal training in Italy, Germany, and France with Désirée Artôt, A. Bax, and Mathilde Marchesi. She made her debut in Italy in 1885 as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto. From 1886 to 1900, she performed with the Mariinsky Theatre company, then worked as a concert singer.
In 1895, Mravina was the first performer of the role of Oksana in Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera Christmas Eve. Her repertoire included more than 30 operatic roles. Alexander Spendiaryan dedicated his romance “To the Moon,” set to words by Percy Shelley, to her in 1906.
After becoming seriously ill while touring, she moved to Yalta in 1903. She gave benefit concerts there for people in need and for the construction of a sanatorium, and took part in fundraising for tuberculosis patients. Mravina died in Yalta on October 25, 1914, and was buried in the Polikurovsky cemetery.